Hoang Thi Giang, Pham Minh Khue, Claire E Sterk, Dabney P Evans, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Kathryn M Yount
{"title":"Adverse Childhood Experiences increase the lifetime experience of violence poly-victimization among female sex worker in Hai Phong, Vietnam.","authors":"Hoang Thi Giang, Pham Minh Khue, Claire E Sterk, Dabney P Evans, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Kathryn M Yount","doi":"10.59070/jhs020624006","DOIUrl":"10.59070/jhs020624006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Violence against female sex workers (FSW) is understudied in Viet Nam. In this cross-sectional study, we examined the relationship between exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with experiencing lifetime interpersonal violence by a pimp, intimate partner, or others, and poly-victimization among FSWs in Hai Phong, Viet Nam. A time-location sampling recruitment methodology was used to enroll 310 FSWs in Hai Phong city, north Viet Nam. Using an adapted version of the WHO-Multi-Country Study on Violence against Women Survey Instrument, four types of interpersonal violence were assessed (physical, sexual, economic, and emotional) for three perpetrator groups (intimate partner; client; and others including relatives, police, strangers, and FSWs) after age 18 years, ACEs before age 18 years were measured using the ACE-Q. The lifetime prevalence of poly-victimization violence across the three perpetrator groups was higher in the FSW who had ACEs than those who had no/fewer ACEs. The logistic regression analysis showed that any and 2+ ACEs have significantly adjusted associations with lifetime exposure to interpersonal violence, including poly-victimization, by different types of perpetrators. Furthur studies on this causal effect need to be implemented to prevent violence among FSWs.</p>","PeriodicalId":520981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health sciences (Haiphong, Vietnam)","volume":"2 6","pages":"152-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12339185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144824784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}