Environmental Drinking Contexts & Intimate Partner Violence

Site PI: Harrison Alter, MD, MS

Funder: NIH 1R01AA022990

The relationship between alcohol use and intimate partner violence is well-established but little understood. To help move the field forward, the Levitt Center has partnered as a subawardee with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation to perform a mixed-methods study of drinking contexts -- where, when and with whom -- and how such contexts influence partner abuse patterns. This is a five year project, and will involve in-depth interviews of dozens of patients and surveys of hundreds.