Topic > Drinking Alcohol and Sexual Assault - 4690

Excessive alcohol consumption among college students is a problem and studies have indicated this for several years (Turrisi, Mallett, Mastroleo, & Larimer, 2006). This topic continues to be a crucial topic of study. Hingson, Heeren, Zakocs, Kopstein, and Wechsler (2002) suggest that approximately 1,400 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 died in 1998 from alcohol-related injuries. Hingson et al. found 112,000 arrests among college students ages 18 to 24 in 1999 for alcohol-related crimes. Hingson et al. Furthermore, 630,000 assaults of students aged between 18 and 24 were reported, 400,000 students had unprotected sexual intercourse due to alcohol and 70,000 victims of sexual violence. The study by Hingson et al. used data held by the Center for Disease Control on the number of unintentional injury deaths, motor vehicle deaths recorded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and medical examiner research to determine their numbers. Three surveys of college students determined the number of college student deaths in the study. Hingson et al. used the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse which surveyed 6,930 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 in the United States. Another survey used in the study was the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey in which 3,077 students at 136 colleges in the United States participated. The third survey used by Hingson et al. was the Harvard School of Public Health Alcohol College Survey that surveyed students from several colleges in 1993, 1997, and 1999. In 1999, 12,317 students from these colleges covering 40 states participated. Hingson et al. mention a few reasons why their numbers might be conservative, one of which is social desirability. Another reason suggested by Hingson and......half of the paper......association membership 7 (8.6%) of those who reported regretting having sex under the influence in the last 12 months they were members of a Greek organization while 74 (91.4 %) were not. We used a Mann-Whitney U test to compare the AUDIT scores of those who reported unwanted sexual intercourse under the influence in the past 12 months with those who did not. A significant difference was found between those who reported unwanted sex under the influence in the past 12 months and those who did not (mean rank = 1,416.53 vs. 823.24; U = 10,992.50 p