Department of General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2010 Aug;122(2):143-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01533.x. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
There is limited information available about the mental health of female sex workers. Therefore, we aimed to make a comprehensive assessment of the mental status of female sex workers over different outdoors and indoors work settings and nationalities.
As the prerequisites of a probability sampling were not given, a quota-sampling strategy was the best possible alternative. Sex workers were contacted at different locations in the city of Zurich. They were interviewed with a computerized version of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Additional information was assessed in a structured face-to-face interview.
The 193 interviewed female sex workers displayed high rates of mental disorders. These mental disorders were related to violence and the subjectively perceived burden of sex work.
Sex work is a major public health problem. It has many faces, but ill mental health of sex workers is primarily related to different forms of violence.
关于性工作者的心理健康，目前信息有限。因此，我们旨在全面评估不同工作环境和国籍的性工作者的精神状态。
由于没有概率抽样的前提条件，配额抽样策略是最好的选择。在苏黎世市的不同地点联系性工作者。他们接受了世界卫生组织综合国际诊断访谈的计算机化版本的访谈。在结构化的面对面访谈中评估了其他信息。
接受采访的 193 名性工作者表现出较高的精神障碍率。这些精神障碍与暴力和主观感受到的性工作负担有关。
性工作是一个主要的公共卫生问题。它有很多方面，但性工作者心理健康不良主要与不同形式的暴力有关。
