Work environment domain | Properties | ||
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Mean, range Median (IQR) | Cronbach's α (standardised) | K-R coefficient* | |
Full Safer Indoor Work Environment Scale | 21.1, 22 (16–28) | 0.914 | – |
Social and policy venue-based features† | |||
Venue safety policies and managerial practices component: Women's only space (eg, workers) Women's only front desk staff and management Venue has restrictions on hours of operation Management explicitly discusses sex work Management posts bad date (violent perpetrator) sheets Venue has restrictions on overnight guests Management restrict number of clients to one at a time Management has explicit safety plan for violent clients | 1.11, 7 0 (0, 2) | 0.903 | 0.870 |
Physical venue-based features† | – | – | – |
Access to sexual/reproductive health services and supplies component Primary health care/or street nurse comes to venue Voluntary and accessible Pap testing (eg, comes to venue) Voluntary and accessible STI testing (eg, comes to venue) Voluntary and accessible HIV testing (eg, comes to venue) | 0.71, 4 0 (0, 0) | 0.960 | 0.903 |
Access to drug harm reduction services and supplies component Crack pipes and drug use cleaning supplies ‘Sharps’ containers Syringes | 0.67,3 0 (0, 1) | 0.926 | 0.895 |
Access physical security features component Management asks for client ID Phone available in room Video camera in hallway or entrance Call button/camera available in room | 1.11,4 1 (0, 2) | 0.698 | 0.698 |
Community organisation level | |||
Lippman and Kerrigan and colleagues’ Social Cohesion Scale:27 measures perception of mutual aid, trust, connectedness, support among workers You can count on your colleagues if you need to borrow money You can count on your colleagues to accompany you to the doctor or hospital You can count on your colleagues if you need to talk about your problems In general, your colleagues in the area where you work only worry about themselves You can count on your colleagues if you need advice You can count on your colleagues if you need somewhere to stay You can count on your colleagues to help deal with a violent or difficult client You can count on your colleagues to help you find clients You can count on your colleagues to support the use of condoms The group of women/men with whom you work is an integrated group In general, people you work with are always arguing among each other In general, the people you work with get along wellAll items summed and standardised (0, 1, 2, 3 points for ascending responses) | 18.65 (37) 19 (15–23) | 0.919 | – |
Cronbach's α scores >0.70 indicate a high level of internal consistency.
*Kuder-Richardson coefficient.
†All items summed (1 for yes; 0 for no).
AESHA, An Evaluation of Sex Workers’ Health Access; STI, sexually transmitted infection.