Orphans of the AIDS epidemic: an examination of clinical level problems of children
| Autor: | Jennifer Pelton, Rex Forehand |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Ethnic group Child Behavior Disorders Personality Assessment Disease Outbreaks Foster Home Care Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Child of Impaired Parents Reference Values Developmental and Educational Psychology Medicine Humans Child Behavior Checklist Child Internal-External Control Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome business.industry Public health Incidence Maternal Deprivation Social environment medicine.disease Louisiana Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies El Niño Maternal death Female business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 44(6) |
| ISSN: | 0890-8567 |
| Popis: | Objective The percentage of children with clinical levels of internalizing and externalizing problems before and after maternal death from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was contrasted with two comparison groups: children whose mothers were human immunodeficiency virus infected but continued to live and children whose mothers were not infected. Method One hundred five 6- to 11-year-old African-American children from New Orleans and their mothers or caregivers participated. Mothers and caregivers completed the Child Behavior Checklist. Results The findings indicated that, relative to those in one of the two control groups, more children in the orphans group had clinical levels of internalizing and externalizing problems before their mother's death and clinical levels of internalizing problems 2 years after her death. No differences emerged at 6 months after the mother's death. Conclusions The differences that emerged and the high percentage of children in the orphans group in the borderline clinical or clinical range (52%-73% across the three assessments) indicate the importance of intervention efforts for these children beginning before the mother's death and continuing after her death. |
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