Assessing the Feasibility of a New Prevention to Reduce Alcohol-related Sexual Revictimization of College Women

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This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) is designed to test a new intervention designed to reduce college women's risk for sexual revictimization (SRV). The intervention targets women with a history of sexual assault (SA) and recent hazardous drinking (HD), as these women are at highest risk for SRV. The primary goals of the intervention are to decrease women's HD, improve their ability to perceive cues that signal risk for SRV, and strengthen their behavioral skills in situations associated with an increased risk for SRV. The intervention, Revictimization Prevention for College Women (RPCW) is a multi-modal intervention that includes two on-line interactive education modules and two in-person group skills-based training sessions that focus on problem solving training and behavioral rehearsal. The pilot RCT of the RPCW intervention will include 96 college women with follow-up assessments at 3- and 6-months post intervention. Women will be randomly assigned to either the RPCW intervention or to a Health Education Control (HEC) condition. The pilot RCT will be used to establish the feasibility of recruitment, the acceptability and safety of the RPCW intervention, and provide initial efficacy data that will assist in power calculations for a Stage II efficacy trial. The investigators hypothesize that women in RPCW intervention will report fewer days of hazardous drinking and improved perception of sexual assault risk cues compared with participants in the HEC condition. In addition, women in the RPCW intervention will report increased knowledge of safe dating practices and protective behavioral (drinking) strategies compared with participants in the HEC condition. Finally, women in the RPCW intervention will report lower rates of SRV as compared with participants in the HEC condition at the 6-month post-intervention follow-up.

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