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Record W4412636709 · doi:10.1080/23322705.2025.2534773

A Multidisciplinary Scoping Review of Interventions to Support Victims of Human Trafficking

2025· article· en· W4412636709 on OpenAlexaff
Sarah MacLean, Nicole E. Edgar, Mahsa Jormand, Brooklyn Ward, Jessica Yu, Lindsey Sikora, Simon Hatcher

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Human Trafficking · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSex work and related issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaCarleton UniversityOttawa Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultidisciplinary approachPsychological interventionHuman traffickingMedicinePsychologyPolitical scienceCriminologyNursing

Abstract

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Victims of human trafficking experience extensive trauma, including multiple types of abuse, malnutrition, and unsafe living and working conditions. Supporting victims is complex and requires a multi-sectoral response which includes child welfare, criminal justice, public health, mental health, and social services. The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and assess multi-sectoral interventions to support victims of human trafficking. We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts and Social Work Abstracts. All screening and data collection was completed by two independent reviewers. Conflicts were resolved via consensus with the research team. We identified a total of 17,309 papers of which 43 were included for data extraction. In these 43 studies, we identified seven key types of interventions: psychotherapies, housing interventions, residential treatment facilities, psychosocial interventions, case management, occupational therapy, and legal interventions. Of these interventions, only 37% were multi-sectoral in nature. Our findings highlight the need for large-scale, randomized control trials of multi-component interventions to meet the diverse needs of this population. The use of a multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) approach may be especially beneficial here as it allows for the optimization of individual intervention components before a formal randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.819
Threshold uncertainty score0.652

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.382 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations5
Published2025
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