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Sexual assault history and use of health and mental health services

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  1. School of Public Health, University of California, 21-245 Center for Health Sciences, 90024-1772, Los Angeles, California

    Jacqueline M. Golding, Judith A. Stein & Judith M. Siegel

  2. The RAND Corporation, USA

    M. Audrey Burnam

  3. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Susan B. Sorenson

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This research was supported by the Epidemiologic Catchment Area program (U01 MH 35865), by supplemental funds from the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape (grant MH 35865-03), and by NIMH Research Training Grant MH 14664 to the UCLA School of Public Health.

The Epidemiologic Catchment Area program (ECA) is a series of five epidemiologic research studies performed by independent research teams in collaboration with staff of the Division of Biometry and Epidemiology (DBE) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The NIMH principal collaborators are Darrel A. Regier, Ben Z. Locke, and Jack D. Burke, Jr.; the NIMH project officer is William J. Huber. The principal investigators and coinvestigators from the five sites are as follows: Yale University, U01 MH 34224—Jerome K. Myers, Myrna M. Weissman, and Gary L. Tischler; the Johns Hopkins University, U01 MH 33870—Morton Kramer and Sam Shapiro; Washington University, St. Louis, U01 MH 33883—Lee N. Robins and John E. Helzer; Duke University, U01 MH 35386—Dan Blazer and Linda George; University of California, Los Angeles, U01 MH 35865—Marvin Karno, Richard L. Hough, Javier I. Escobar, M. Audrey Burnam, and Dianne M. Timbers.The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Vivian Brown, Cynthia Telles, and Dianne Timbers to the development of the sexual assault instrument. We thank anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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Golding, J.M., Stein, J.A., Siegel, J.M. et al. Sexual assault history and use of health and mental health services. Am J Commun Psychol 16, 625–644 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00930018

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