Health behaviour change among commercially sexually exploited Israeli youth and young adults in a multi‐module program

• Published in: Health & social care in the community Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 1448 - 1458
• Main Authors: Preis, Heidi, Peled, Einat, Shilo, Guy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Behavior change; Behavior modification; Case management; Clinical outcomes; commercially sexually exploited youth; Community health care; Drug abuse; Drug use; Drugs; Early intervention; Health behavior; health behaviours; Health problems; Health risks; Health services; Health status; health trajectories; High risk; Internet; Intervention; Latent class analysis; program evaluation; repeated measures; Risk behavior; Sexual behavior; Sociodemographics; Victimization; Vulnerability; Within-subjects design; Young adults; Youth; commercially sexually exploited youth; health behaviours; program evaluation; health trajectories; repeated measures

Commercially sexually exploited youth and young adults (hereafter CSEY) are at high risk for various health adversities, but little is known about interventions that can improve their health outcomes. This study reports changes in health behaviours—positive health behaviours, drug use and risky sexu...