VANCOUVER – North American university students are at high risk of being victimized by “intimate partners” who’ve been drinking heavily, a new University of B.C. study says.
The study, led by UBC researcher Elizabeth Saewyc, says almost 20 per cent of young men and women on subject campuses have reported being targets of “physical or emotional violence (which) is often linked to drinking” in the past six months.
Saewyc worked with researchers at the University of Wisconsin and University of Washington in Seattle to survey more than 2,000 students who attended campus health services for routine appointments. The study was part of a larger project on problem drinking and campus health funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.