Content analysis of drug offenders' sketches on the draw-an-event test for risky sexual situations.

OBJECTIVES

To evaluate the utility of the Draw-an-Event Test for risky sexual situations (DET-RS), a nonverbal memory-based assessment tool used for productions of spontaneous content associated with risky sex.

METHODS

Traditional holistic coding analysis of 298 drug offenders' content productions.

RESULTS

Content analyses of DET-RS sketches provided increased understanding of substance use and other context preceding risky sexual situations with different types of sex partners. None of the sketches including drugs depicted condoms, only one of the sketches with alcohol included a condom, and only 2 sketches mentioned sexually transmitted diseases.

CONCLUSIONS

The DET-RS is a useful research tool for generating nonverbal context-specific stimuli associated with risky sexual situations.