SynthesisTrauma, violence & abuse2011
The prevalence of sexual assault against people who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual in the United States: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Trauma, violence & abuse, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
148 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 548 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to prevent sexual harassment in universities: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators for Sexual Trauma Disclosure in Boys and Men: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Sexual Assault Case Attrition in the United States from 2000 to 2020.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of the neural correlates of sexual minority stress: towards an intersectional minority mosaic framework with implications for a future research agenda.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Pooled it
- Sexual violence and cardiovascular disease risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Maturitas · 2021Pooled it
- The Frequency of Sexual Perpetration in College Men: A Systematic Review of Reported Prevalence Rates From 2000 to 2017.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2021Pooled it
- Violence motivated by perception of sexual orientation and gender identity: a systematic review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2018Pooled it
- Stressful childhood experiences and health outcomes in sexual minority populations: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Pooled it
- Intimate partner violence among men who have sex with men: a systematic review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2013Pooled it
- Alcohol's Effects on the Bystander Decision-Making Model: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of sex researchPooled it
- Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of College Sexual Violence Experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ Students: Gender- and Gender Modality-Based Analysis.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Barriers to Accessing and Providing Primary Care Services for LGBTIQA+ Individuals Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Article
- Avoidant coping behaviors as risk factor in the relationship between heterosexism and PTSD severity among young sexual minority women.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Pregnancy intentions by sexual orientation among pregnancies across the life course.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Urological care for sexual and gender minorities: a narrative review toward equitable care.Current opinion in urology · 2026Review
- LGBTQ+ Adult Sexual Violence Critical Scoping Review: Insights into Victimization and Perpetration.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Article
- Is It Rape or Consent? College Men Just Don't Know.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Identity in turmoil: Investigating the morally injurious dimensions of minority stress.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Sexual Violence in Party-Related Social Settings from a Public Health Perspective: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Adults in Poland.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Females' Engagement in Offline and Online Sexual Offending and Their Interactions With the Criminal Justice System: A Gender and Age Comparison.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2025Article
88 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
This article systematically reviews 75 studies that examine the prevalence of sexual assault victimization among gay or bisexual (GB) men, and lesbian or bisexual (LB) women, in the United States. All studies were published between 1989 and 2009 and report the results of quantitative research. The authors reviewed the reported prevalence of lifetime sexual assault victimization (LSA), and where available, childhood sexual assault (CSA), adult sexual assault (ASA), intimate partner sexual assault (IPSA), and hate crime-related sexual assault (HC). The studies were grouped into those that used a probability or census sampling technique (n=25) and those that used a non-probability or ''community-based'' sampling technique (n=50). A total of 139,635 gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) respondents participated in the underlying studies reviewed. Prevalence estimates of LSA ranged from 15.6-85.0% for LB women and 11.8-54.0% for GB men. Considering the median estimates derived from the collective set of studies reviewed, LB women were more likely to report CSA, ASA, LSA, and IPSA than GB men, whereas GB men were more likely to report HC than LB women. Across all studies, the highest estimates reported were for LSA of LB women (85.0%), CSA of LB women (76.0%), and CSA of GB men (59.2%). With some exceptions, studies using non-probability samples reported higher sexual assault prevalence rates than did population-based or census sample studies. The challenges of assessing sexual assault victimization with GLB populations are discussed, as well as the implications for practice, policy, and future research.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.