Status:
COMPLETED
International Kink Health Study
Lead Sponsor:
The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance
Conditions:
Wounds and Injuries
Mental Health
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
The study design is an observational, longitudinal study with data collected online via a computer-assisted survey. Subjects will be recruited through non-probability snowball sampling. Objectives: ...
Detailed Description
In 2016, TASHRA conducted the first ever health survey of the U.S. kink community, examining issues of injuries, risky behavior, health status, and healthcare access and utilization, and patient satis...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Successful completion of screening checklist to indicate one of the following conditions:
- recurring, long-standing fantasies that focus on kink, in areas such as: power exchange (Dominant/submissive roles), bondage, sadomasochism, or fetish activities. By fetish, we mean a type of sexual desire in which gratification depends on or is significantly increased by particular objects, clothing items, parts of the body, or types of persons.
- OR currently engaging, or have engaged in the past, in consensual kink activities such as power exchange (Dominant/submissive roles), bondage, sadomasochism, or fetish activities.
- Age of majority in the legal jurisdiction (geographic location) where the survey is taken (usually age 18)
- English-language proficiency sufficient to understand the study instruments
- Completion of an electronically signed and dated informed consent form
Exclusion
- People who respond "no" to the following question on the screening checklist
- I am familiar with the importance of consent and I endorse negotiation and safe words or safe signals in my sexual or kink play
- Clearly fraudulent use of the internet survey, such as: evidence of non-human data entry via an internet "bot", duplicative or prank data entry that entails contradictory or clearly fraudulent data.
- Any condition that, in the professional judgement of the Principal Investigator, should exclude an individual from participation in the study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 31 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
917 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05318053
Start Date
June 1 2022
End Date
March 31 2024
Last Update
February 24 2025
Active Locations (1)
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TASHRA
Rio Vista, California, United States, 94571