Impact of violence research on participants over time: Helpful, harmful, or neither?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the impact of answering survey questions about experiences of stressful, stigmatizing, potentially traumatic and sexually violating events on well being, defined as reactions to research, anxiety, and positive and negative affect over two weeks.

Method

With an ethnically diverse sample of 559 higher education students, we employed a mixed experimental design (with between and within-subjects components) to evaluate changes in positive and negative affect, anxiety, traumatic stress symptoms, and reactions to research. We used multilevel regression models and planned contrasts to determine which, if any, specific characteristics of the survey questions caused changes in well being by comparing the effects of answering a randomly assigned set of survey

SUBMITTER: Cook SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503327 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature