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The Impact of Environmental and Physiological Factors on Sexual Assault and HIV (ICPSR 35889)
Released/updated on: 2015-05-14
Geographic coverage: Baltimore, United States, Maryland
This project recruits 400 HIV-negative African American women at increased risk for HIV from low-income health clinics in inner-city Baltimore, MD into a retrospective cohort study. By study design, at least one-third of the sample has experienced forced sex since the age of 18 and two-thirds have not experienced any abuse. In Phase I, participants complete a quantitative survey and biological data collection to measure salivary cortisol levels. In Phase II, a subset of women with a history of forced sex in adulthood (N=20) participate in qualitative in-depth interviews.