Child abuse and neglect among orphaned children and youth living in extended families in sub-Saharan Africa: What have we learned from qualitative inquiry?
Child abuse and neglect among orphaned children and youth living in extended families in sub-Saharan Africa: What have we learned from qualitative inquiry?
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DOI：
10.1080/17450128.2013.764476
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Braitstein, Paula
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作者：
Morantz, Gillian;Cole, Donald;Braitstein, Paula
研究人员和援助组织报告说，撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)的孤儿特别容易受到虐待和忽视。这篇文章回顾了一些定性研究，这些研究涉及生活在萨邦大家庭中的孤儿和青年遭受虐待的经历。它的目的是通过更好地了解所遇到的虐待类型和认识到的风险因素，为政策和方案制定提供信息。使用谷歌、PubMed、学者门户网站搜索和Scope us进行文献搜索。还检索了作者的相关书目和出版物。对同行评议期刊和灰色文献中的研究进行了相关性和质量评估。符合条件的研究必须包括与SSA大家庭一起生活的孤儿作为参与者，探索他们的虐待经历，并采用合理的定性方法。研究结果被编码、提取、比较和综合。选择了代表15项研究的20篇文章。这些来自不同SSAN国家的研究报告称，孤儿和青年遭受了类似形式的虐待：家庭内部歧视；物质和教育忽视；过度童工；家庭成员的剥削以及心理、性和身体虐待。感知到的危险因素是贫困、与非生物照顾者生活在一起、耻辱和酗酒。纳入的研究结果表明，需要采取提高认识、预防和干预举措，以遏制南沙地区社区内的虐待儿童和忽视儿童现象，并应同时努力促进教育，减少贫困和耻辱。
Researchers and aid organizations have reported that orphans in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are particularly vulnerable to abuse and neglect. This article is a review of qualitative studies that address experiences of maltreatment among orphaned children and youth living in extended families in SSA. It aims to inform policy and programming by providing a better understanding of the types of maltreatment encountered and the perceived risk factors. A literature search was carried out using Google, PubMed, Scholars Portal Search and Scopus. Searches of relevant bibliographies and publications of authors were also undertaken. Studies from peer-reviewed journals and the grey literature were reviewed for relevance and quality. Eligible studies had to include orphans living with extended family in SSA as participants, explore their maltreatment experiences and employ a sound qualitative methodology. Findings were coded, extracted, compared and synthesized. Twenty articles, representing 15 studies, were selected. These studies, from diverse SSAn countries, reported similar forms of maltreatment among orphaned children and youth: experiences of intra-household discrimination; material and educational neglect; excessive child labour; exploitation by family members and psychological, sexual and physical abuse. The perceived risk factors were poverty, living with a non-biological caregiver, stigma and alcohol abuse. The findings of the included studies suggest that awareness, prevention and intervention initiatives aimed to curb child abuse and neglect within communities in SSA are needed and should be coupled with efforts to promote education and reduce poverty and stigma.