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| Title: | Inverse association of natural mentoring relationship with distress mental health in children orphaned by AIDS |
| Authors: | Onuoha, Francis N
Munakata, Tsunetsugu
宗像, 恒次 |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2010 |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Journal Title: | BMC psychiatry |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page: | 1 |
| End Page: | 8 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-244X-10-6 |
| PMID: | 20078888 |
| Abstract: | Background
The magnitude of the AIDS-orphaned children crisis in sub-Saharan Africa has so overstretched the resource of most families that the collapse of fostering in the sub-region seems imminent (UNICEF, 2003), fueling the need for a complementary/alternative care. This paper examines the probability of the natural mentoring care to ameliorate distress mental health in children orphaned by AIDS.
Methods
952 children, mean age about 14 years, from local community schools and child-care centers in Kampala (Uganda) and Mafikeng/Klerksdorp (South Africa) towns participated in the study. The design has AIDS-orphaned group (n = 373) and two control groups: Other-causes orphaned (n = 287) and non-orphaned (n = 290) children. We use measures of child abuse, depression, social discrimination, anxiety, parental/foster care, self-esteem, and social support to estimate mental health. Natural mentoring care is measured with the Ragins and McFarlin (1990) Mentor Role Instrument as adapted.
Results
AIDS-orphaned children having a natural mentor showed significant decreased distress mental health factors. Similar evidence was not observed in the control groups. Also being in a natural mentoring relationship inversely related to distress mental health factors in the AIDS-orphaned group, in particular. AIDS-orphaned children who scored high mentoring relationship showed significant lowest distress mental health factors that did those who scored moderate and low mentoring relationship.
Conclusions
Natural mentoring care seems more beneficial to ameliorate distress mental health in AIDS-orphaned children (many of whom are double-orphans, having no biological parents) than in children in the control groups. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2241/105153 |
| Rights: | © 2010 Onuoha and Munakata; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
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| Appears in Collections: | 宗像 恒次 (Munakata Tsunetsugu)
BMC psychiatry
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