Repository Citation
Adamczyk, Michelle; Siegal, Ilana; Mulenga, Musunga; and Manger, Jeannette, "Human Trafficking Education for 3rd Year Medical Students" (2021). Medical Student Research Symposium Abstracts and Posters. 3.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/msrs/2021/poster_presentations_7/3
Start Date
29-4-2021 7:25 PM
End Date
29-4-2021 7:35 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Human trafficking is both a global and local human rights issue involving the exploitation of victims for labor or sex. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in every U.S. state, and victims of human trafficking include both minors and adults. Many victims of human trafficking will visit a health care setting during the time they are under the control of their trafficker. This allows health care providers the opportunity to play a key role in identifying and intervening to help victims of human trafficking, particularly while they are in the more controlled health care setting. The goal of this study is to determine how does a 3rd year didactics session improve student knowledge of human trafficking and comfort in identifying and assisting human trafficking victims. Students in this study attended a 3 hour didactics session discussing human trafficking as a general topic, the clinician’s role in identifying and assisting victims, and local community resources to help victims. Students took pre- and post-tests with 10 questions assessing confidence around the topic of human trafficking and confidence in application of skills with a Likert scale, as well as 9 knowledge-based questions surrounding human trafficking and using a trauma-informed approach to identify and interview human trafficking victims. Pre- and post-test answers were compared using paired two-sample t-tests. Results showed a significant growth in subjective confidence in knowledge of human trafficking both globally and locally, knowledge of risk factors for being trafficked, and confidence in identifying indicators of potential victims. Students had a significant subjective increase in confidence that they could identify and help victims in both medical and non-medical settings. Student performance on objective knowledge-based questions significantly improved from pre- to post-test overall. Additionally, over 90% of student participants either strongly or somewhat agreed that the session taught them a lot about human trafficking. These findings suggest that including human trafficking as a didactics topic in medical education can effectively increase student knowledge of human trafficking and confidence to identify and intervene in future situations where they may encounter victims of human trafficking.
Abstract - Adamczyk
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Human Trafficking Education for 3rd Year Medical Students
Human trafficking is both a global and local human rights issue involving the exploitation of victims for labor or sex. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in every U.S. state, and victims of human trafficking include both minors and adults. Many victims of human trafficking will visit a health care setting during the time they are under the control of their trafficker. This allows health care providers the opportunity to play a key role in identifying and intervening to help victims of human trafficking, particularly while they are in the more controlled health care setting. The goal of this study is to determine how does a 3rd year didactics session improve student knowledge of human trafficking and comfort in identifying and assisting human trafficking victims. Students in this study attended a 3 hour didactics session discussing human trafficking as a general topic, the clinician’s role in identifying and assisting victims, and local community resources to help victims. Students took pre- and post-tests with 10 questions assessing confidence around the topic of human trafficking and confidence in application of skills with a Likert scale, as well as 9 knowledge-based questions surrounding human trafficking and using a trauma-informed approach to identify and interview human trafficking victims. Pre- and post-test answers were compared using paired two-sample t-tests. Results showed a significant growth in subjective confidence in knowledge of human trafficking both globally and locally, knowledge of risk factors for being trafficked, and confidence in identifying indicators of potential victims. Students had a significant subjective increase in confidence that they could identify and help victims in both medical and non-medical settings. Student performance on objective knowledge-based questions significantly improved from pre- to post-test overall. Additionally, over 90% of student participants either strongly or somewhat agreed that the session taught them a lot about human trafficking. These findings suggest that including human trafficking as a didactics topic in medical education can effectively increase student knowledge of human trafficking and confidence to identify and intervene in future situations where they may encounter victims of human trafficking.
