Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

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Quality of Life among Female Sex Workers


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1 Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India
     

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The present study endeavourers to cast a glance at the Quality of Life among Female Sex Workers in CREATE (Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical Education) at Lucknow, with the help of WHO QOL-BREF 1996 questionnaire. Sample comprised of 30 female sex workers selected on the basis of purpose sampling (age ranged 20-30 years). Results revealed poor quality of life of FSW further in terms of domains they were high on psychological and environmental domains of quality of life as compared to physical and social domains.

Keywords

Female Sex Worker, Prostitution, Quality of Life.
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Archana Shukla
Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India
Deepti Mehrotra
Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India

Abstract


The present study endeavourers to cast a glance at the Quality of Life among Female Sex Workers in CREATE (Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical Education) at Lucknow, with the help of WHO QOL-BREF 1996 questionnaire. Sample comprised of 30 female sex workers selected on the basis of purpose sampling (age ranged 20-30 years). Results revealed poor quality of life of FSW further in terms of domains they were high on psychological and environmental domains of quality of life as compared to physical and social domains.

Keywords


Female Sex Worker, Prostitution, Quality of Life.