Gerassi Lara, Edmond Tonya, Nichols Andrea
Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Action Res (Lond). 2017 Jun;15(2):161-176. doi: 10.1177/1476750316630387. Epub 2016 Mar 24.
The study of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex work, and sexual exploitation is associated with many methodological issues and challenges. Researchers' study designs must consider the many safety issues related to this vulnerable and hidden population. Community advisory boards and key stakeholder involvement are essential to study design to increase safety of participants, usefulness of study aims, and meaningfulness of conclusions. Nonrandomized sampling strategies are most often utilized when studying exploited women and girls, which have the capacity to provide rich data and require complex sampling and recruitment methods. This article reviews the current methodological issues when studying this marginalized population as well as strategies to address challenges while working with the community in order to bring about social change. The authors also discuss their own experiences in collaborating with community organizations to conduct research in this field.
对性交易、卖淫、性工作和性剥削的研究涉及许多方法学问题与挑战。研究人员的研究设计必须考虑与这一脆弱且隐蔽群体相关的诸多安全问题。社区咨询委员会和关键利益相关者的参与对于研究设计至关重要，以提高参与者的安全性、研究目标的实用性以及结论的意义。在研究受剥削的妇女和女孩时，最常采用非随机抽样策略，这种策略能够提供丰富的数据，并且需要复杂的抽样和招募方法。本文回顾了研究这一边缘化群体时当前存在的方法学问题，以及在与社区合作以实现社会变革时应对挑战的策略。作者还讨论了他们自己在与社区组织合作开展该领域研究方面的经验。
