TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Building RAFT: trafficking screening tool derivation and validation methods
JO  - Academic emergency medicine
A1  - Chisolm-Straker, Makini
A1  - Singer, Elizabeth
A1  - Rothman, Emily Faith
A1  - Clesca, Cindy
A1  - Strong, David
A1  - Loo DrPH Mpa, George T.
A1  - Sze, Jeremy
A1  - d'Etienne, James
A1  - Alanis, Naomi
A1  - Richardson, Lynne D.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: Labor and sex trafficking have long impacted the patients who seek care in emergency departments (ED) across the United States. Increasing social and legislative pressures have led to multiple calls for screening for trafficking in the clinical care setting, but adoption of unvalidated screening tools for trafficking recognition is unwise for individual patient care and population level data. Development of a valid screening tool for a social malady that is largely "invisible" to most clinicians requires significant investments. Valid screening tool development is largely a poorly understood process in the anti-trafficking field and among clinicians who would use the tools. <br><br>METHODS: The authors describe the study design and procedures for reliable data collection and analysis in the development of RAFT (Rapid Appraisal for Trafficking). In a 5-ED, randomized, prospective study, RAFT will be derived and validated as a labor and sex trafficking screening tool for use among adult ED patients. Using a novel method of ED patient-participant randomization, intensively trained data collectors use qualitative data to assess subjects for a lifetime experience of human trafficking. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Study methodology transparency encourages investigative rigor and integrity, and will allow other sites to reproduce and externally validate this study's findings.<br><br>© 2019 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.    Keywords: Human trafficking; <p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1069-6563
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.13888
ID  - ref1
ER  -