tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The orphaning experience: descriptions from Ugandan youth who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: The orphaning experience: descriptions from Ugandan youth who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. | Harms et al. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2010 4 6 http content 4 1 6 CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access The orphaning experience descriptions from Ugandan youth who have lost parents to HIV AIDS Sheila Harms1 Susan Jack2 Joshua Ssebunnya3 Ruth Kizza4 Abstract The HIV AIDS epidemic has continued to pose significant challenges to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of African children and youth have lost parents to HIV AIDS leaving a generation of orphans to be cared for within extended family systems and communities. The experiences of youth who have lost parents to the HIV AIDS epidemic provide an important ingress into this complex evolving multi-dimensional phenomenon. A fundamental qualitative descriptive study was conducted to develop a culturally relevant and comprehensive description of the experiences of orphanhood from the perspectives of Ugandan youth. A purposeful sample of 13 youth who had lost one or both parents to HIV AIDS and who were affiliated with a non-governmental organization providing support to orphans were interviewed. Youth orphaned by HIV AIDS described the experience of orphanhood beginning with parental illness not death. Several losses were associated with the death of a parent including lost social capitol educational opportunities and monetary assets. Unique findings revealed that youth experienced culturally specific stigma and conflict which was distinctly related to their HIV AIDS orphan status. Exploitation within extended cultural family systems was also reported. Results from this study suggest that there is a pressing need to identify and provide culturally appropriate services for these Ugandan youth prior to and after the loss of a parent s . Background In Sub-Saharan Africa a significant and catastrophic long-term outcome of the HIV AIDS crisis has been the emergence of a large population of children and youth who have lost one or both parents to this .