PROJECTS

HIGHLITEs (Highlighting the Importance of Getting Help while Living in Traumatic Environments): A pilot program for stimulant-using women in abusive relationships

The overall goal of this pilot study is to understand how to identify potentially lethal and severe relationship violence and facilitate safety planning among stimulant-using women in currently abusive relationships. We quantitatively and qualitatively administer the Danger Assessment, a tool designed to assess the likelihood of being killed or nearly killed by an abusive partner, to 30 women. This allows us to understand how the Danger Assessment may or may not capture potentially dangerous situations in environments where intimate partner violence and drug use co-occur. Understanding the application of the Danger Assessment to facilitate safety planning among abused drug-using women is critical for the development of an HIV risk reduction intervention that has a secondary goal of increasing awareness and safety of potentially lethal relationships.

FUNDING SOURCE

Columbia University HIV Intervention Science Training Program, National Institute of Mental Health
(R25-MH-080665)

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH

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