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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Recent Adv DNA Gene Seq. 2014;8(2):78–90. doi: 10.2174/2352092209666150216122234

Table 3.

Trust in authorities to protect victims.

Trust Question [“Agree or disagree with the following statements”] Score (Σ/N) (N=38) Subject “sex workers” (N=22) Subject “sex trafficking victims” (N=16)
I trust the police to protect [SUBJECT] when they are in custody 2.1 2.4 1.6
I trust the police to protect [SUBJECT] that are not in police custody 2.6 3.0 1.9
I trust social workers to assist [SUBJECT] 1.2 1.4 1.0
I trust a health care provider to assist [SUBJECT] 1.2 1.4 1.0
I trust a lawyer to assist [SUBJECT] 1.6 1.9 1.2
*

Σ of 5-point Likert scale responses, Strongly Agree (SA) to Strongly Disagree (SD), weighted 0 for each SA response, 1 for each Agree, 2 for each Neither, 3 for each Disagree, and 4 for each SD.

Higher scores indicate an increase in stigmatization. Darker shading also indicates a higher perception of stigmatization.