Sexual assault incidents among college undergraduates: Prevalence and factors associated with risk.

ABSTRACT: Sexual assault on college campuses is a public health issue. However varying research methodologies (e.g., different sexual assault definitions, measures, assessment timeframes) and low response rates hamper efforts to define the scope of the problem. To illuminate the complexity of campus sexual assault, we collected survey data from a large population-based random sample of undergraduate students from Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City, using evidence based methods to maximize response rates and sample representativeness, and behaviorally specific measures of sexual assault to accurately capture victimization rates. This paper focuses on student experiences of different types of sexual assault victimization, as well as sociodemographic, social, and risk environment

SUBMITTER: Mellins CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695602 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature