Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault Among Adolescents

Information

  • Research Project
  • 6946374
  • ApplicationId
    6946374
  • Core Project Number
    R03AA014601
  • Full Project Number
    5R03AA014601-02
  • Serial Number
    14601
  • FOA Number
    PAR-99-098
  • Sub Project Id
  • Project Start Date
    9/5/2004 - 20 years ago
  • Project End Date
    6/30/2006 - 18 years ago
  • Program Officer Name
    FADEN, VIVIAN B.
  • Budget Start Date
    9/1/2005 - 19 years ago
  • Budget End Date
    6/30/2006 - 18 years ago
  • Fiscal Year
    2005
  • Support Year
    2
  • Suffix
  • Award Notice Date
    8/30/2005 - 19 years ago

Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault Among Adolescents

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the fact that sexual assault often has profound lifelong detrimental effects on the psychological and physical well-being of its victims (Koss & Kilpatrick, 2001; Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993), sexual assault among adolescent girls continues to be a silent epidemic in the United States. Adolescent girls between the ages of 14-17 have the highest rate of sexual assault according to crime report statistics (Snyder, 2000); yet only half of all adolescent female victims will tell anyone an assault has occurred (Davis, 1993; Davis & Lee, 1996) and only 6% will report sexual assault to the authorities (Ageton, 1983). While research on sexual assault among college students indicate that alcohol is present in approximately half of all sexual assault cases, and has both distal and proximal influences on sexual assault (Abbey, Zawacki, Buck, Clinton, & McAuslan, 2001; Abbey, 2002), we continue to know very little about the prevalence and role of alcohol in sexual assault cases between adolescent acquaintances. The purpose of this study is to begin to address the limited understanding of this topic by examining the prevalence and correlates of alcohol-related sexual assault between adolescent acquaintances in a sample of middle and high school students. We propose to conduct a cross-sectional, web-based survey among approximately 1,250 ethnically and socio-economically diverse middle and high school students (approximately 13 to 18 years of age) in which students are asked to provide a retrospective account of sexual assault victimization and perpetration by acquaintances.

IC Name
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
  • Activity
    R03
  • Administering IC
    AA
  • Application Type
    5
  • Direct Cost Amount
  • Indirect Cost Amount
  • Total Cost
    16891
  • Sub Project Total Cost
  • ARRA Funded
  • CFDA Code
    273
  • Ed Inst. Type
    SCHOOLS OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  • Funding ICs
    NIAAA:16891\
  • Funding Mechanism
  • Study Section
    PDRP
  • Study Section Name
    Psychosocial Development, Risk and Prevention Study Section
  • Organization Name
    EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
  • Organization Department
    PSYCHOLOGY
  • Organization DUNS
    623664018
  • Organization City
    YPSILANTI
  • Organization State
    MI
  • Organization Country
    UNITED STATES
  • Organization Zip Code
    48197
  • Organization District
    UNITED STATES