Health of Men, Women, and Children in Post-Trafficking Services In
Articles Health of men, women, and children in post-traffi cking services in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam: an observational cross-sectional study Ligia Kiss, Nicola S Pocock, Varaporn Naisanguansri, Soksreymom Suos, Brett Dickson, Doan Thuy, Jobst Koehler, Kittiphan Sirisup, Nisakorn Pongrungsee, Van Anh Nguyen, Rosilyne Borland, Poonam Dhavan, Cathy Zimmerman Summary Background Traffi cking is a crime of global proportions involving extreme forms of exploitation and abuse. Yet little Lancet Glob Health 2015; research has been done of the health risks and morbidity patterns for men, women, and children traffi cked for various 3: e154–61 forms of forced labour. See Comment page e118 London School of Hygiene & Methods We carried out face-to-face interviews with a consecutive sample of individuals entering 15 post-traffi cking Tropical Medicine, London, UK (L Kiss PhD, C Zimmerman PhD, services in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. We asked participants about living and working conditions, experience N S Pocock MSc); International of violence, and health outcomes. We measured symptoms of anxiety and depression with the Hopkins Symptoms Organization for Migration, Checklist and post-traumatic stress disorder with the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, and used adjusted logistic Bangkok, Thailand (D Thuy MA, regression models to estimate the eff ect of traffi cking on these mental health outcomes, controlling for age, sector of V A Nguyen MA, B Dickson BA, P Dhavan MPH, R Borland MA, exploitation, and time in traffi cking. N Pongrungsee, K Sirisup); International Organization for Findings We interviewed 1102 people, of whom 1015 reached work destinations. Participants worked in various sectors Migration, Phnom Penh, including sex work (329 [32%]), fi shing (275 [27%]), and factories (136 [13%]).
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