title: Brief Report: A web-based pilot study of childhood sexual abuse, recent stressful events, and alcohol use in women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a well-documented risk factor for problem drinking, but the possibility that recent stressful events exacerbate risk conferred by CSA has rarely been examined, and the few studies to do so have limited their investigations to negative events. The aim of the current study was to examine the associations between CSA, recent positive and negative stressful events, and women's alcohol consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-nine women (42.7% reporting CSA) completed weekly web-based alcohol use surveys and a stressful event inventory assessing negative and positive events over a 12 week period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Independent of CSA history, experiencing negative events was associated with elevated likelihood of drinking to intoxication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Proximal distressing events are more closely linked than CSA history to short-term drinking patterns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tracking stressful negative events may be informative for identifying precipitants of heavy drinking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Carolyn E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Sartor
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Stephanie S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: O'Malley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult