A Descriptive Exploration of Flourishing Through Kink

NCT ID: NCT06969183

Last Updated: 2025-05-13

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1131 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-22

Study Completion Date

2024-10-06

Brief Summary

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The study examines the experiences of people who have engaged in alternative sexual behaviors, like kink or BDSM, and whether there have been any positive effects on well-being

Detailed Description

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The study design is an observational, cross-sectional mixed methods study with data collected anonymously online via a computer-assisted survey through Qualtrics. Subjects will be recruited through nonprobability snowball sampling

Conditions

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Impact on Psychological Well-being of Involvement in Kink Behaviors

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- 1. Age of majority in the legal jurisdiction (geographic location) where the survey is taken (usually age 18) 2. Self-reported involvement in kink behaviors 3. self-reported English-language proficiency sufficient to understand the study instrument.

4\. Answer correctly a series of questions to screen for bots and fraudulent responses

Exclusion Criteria

* 1\. Report no involvement in kink activities or behaviors 2. Answer incorrectly three or more questions for bot detection and fraudulent responses, 3+ out of 4 bot detection questions.

3\. 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.

4\. Any condition that, in the professional judgment of the Principal Investigator, should exclude an individual from participation in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Richard A Sprott, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance

Locations

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TASHRA

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Related Links

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https://www.tashra.org

Website of community based research organization

Other Identifiers

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T2024-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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