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Offline thundley4

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$3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« on: July 21, 2009, 05:35:32 PM »
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CHICAGO (STNG)  -- The UIC College of Nursing has received a $3 million federal grant to continue research to identify risk factors for excessive drinking among lesbians.

The five-year study, led by Tonda Hughes, professor of health systems science, will examine how stressful experiences -- childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault and discrimination based on ethnicity or sexual orientation -- are related to psychological harm and hazardous drinking in adult women, a release from UIC said.

Data will be collected from a diverse sample of 384 adult lesbians in the area who were previously interviewed by Hughes and her research team in 2000 and 2004. Another 250 new subjects -- 18 to 25 years old and of African-American and Hispanic descent -- will also be interviewed.

The results of the study, Hughes said, will be used to understand how women cope with stress. The group will be compared with heterosexual urban and suburban women in the National Study of Health and Life Experiences of Women, a 20-year longitudinal study of more than 1,600 women.

The findings may help develop more effective alcohol abuse prevention and intervention strategies, Hughes said.
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Just a guess, but I bet they'll find the drinking habits of lesbians are nearly the same as those of hetero women when all other factors are equal.
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Re: $3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2009, 06:45:47 PM »
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Just a guess, but I bet they'll find the drinking habits of lesbians are nearly the same as those of hetero women when all other factors are equal.

Well, then they'll need another 3 million dollar study to confirm that.
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Re: $3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2009, 08:29:26 PM »
Three million bucks will buy you more bull daggers than the crowd at a WNBA game.
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Re: $3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2009, 10:29:38 PM »
What a waste of money  :mental:

As anyone who's spent some time at a pub or club knows, there is no such thing as a drunken lesbian.  Once drunk, they all become bi.....   :uhsure:  :innocent:
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Re: $3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2009, 06:21:43 AM »
Maybe we should invite Athena from SCC to give her input... :lmao:
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Re: $3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2009, 12:35:17 PM »
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