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ArticleWomen's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Alcohol Use and Unintended Sexual Consequences among Women Attending an Urban Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic.

Dinah Lewis, Heidi E Hutton, Tracy A Agee, Mary E McCaul, Geetanjali Chander

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Article in Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dinah LewisDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Heidi E HuttonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Tracy A AgeeDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Mary E McCaulDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Geetanjali ChanderDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: Gchande1@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Computerized BI for Binge Drinking HIV At-Risk & Infected African-American WomenR01AA018632 · NIAAA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHANDER, GEETANJALI · 2009 to 2013
$2.1M
Alcohol and Psychiatric Comorbidity in HIV+ WomenK23AA015313 · NIAAA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHANDER, GEETANJALI · 2005 to 2009
$875k
NIAAA NIH HHS K23 AA015313NIAAA NIH HHS K23AA015313NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA018632NIAAA NIH HHS R01AA018632
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAlthough alcohol use has been linked with a variety of sexual behaviors, we lack an understanding of what precise events occur when women drink that may lead to emotional or physical harms.

methodsTo fill this gap, we qualitatively explored the unintended sexual events occurring while drinking among a particularly at-risk clinic population: urban women attending a public sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinic. This was a secondary data analysis of 20 semistructured, in-depth interviews conducted between December 2009 and August 2010 with 20 sexually active adult women attending the Baltimore City Health Department STI Clinic. We purposively sampled women presenting for care in the STI clinic who reported either binge drinking in the past 6 months or engaging in vaginal or anal intercourse while under the influence of alcohol. Interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory approach.

resultsFive major unintended sexual events emerged: sex with new partners; alternative sexual activities, including anal sex and "rough" sex; unprotected sex; blacked out sex or sex occurring during alcohol-related amnesia; and rape. Themes often overlapped, and sexual victimization was a common thread throughout multiple themes. An additional theme, alcohol and prey, largely occurring in bars and nightclubs, emerged as an important precursor to many of the unintended events described.

conclusionsAlcohol use was associated with a variety of--often dangerous--unintended sexual events. Our results highlight the link between alcohol use and sexual victimization and the need for intervention development to reduce the emotional and physical harms resulting from the unintended consequences of alcohol use.

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Drinking BehaviorRisk-TakingAdultAlcohol DrinkingBaltimoreFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchRapeRisk FactorsSex CharacteristicsSexual BehaviorSexually Transmitted DiseasesSexual Partners

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PMID26115942
PMCPMC4633984
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