tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: ""I washed and fed my mother before going to school": Understanding the psychosocial well-being of children providing chronic care for adults affected by HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: "I washed and fed my mother before going to school": Understanding the psychosocial well-being of children providing chronic care for adults affected by HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Research I washed and fed my mother before going to school Understanding the psychosocial well-being of children providing chronic care for adults affected by HIV AIDS in Western Kenya Morten Skovdal1 and Vincent O Ogutu 2 Address institute of Social Psychology London School of Economics Political Sciences UK and 2WVP Kenya Bondo Town Kenya Email Morten Skovdal - Vincent O Ogutu - Corresponding author Open Access Published 23 August 2009 Globalization and Health 2009 5 8 doi l744-8603-5-8 Received 4 December 2008 Accepted 23 August 2009 This article is available from http content 5 1 8 2009 Skovdal and Ogutu licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract With improved accessibility to life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy the treatment and care requirements of people living with HIV and AIDS resembles that of more established chronic diseases. As an increasing number of people living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya have access to ART the primary caregivers of poor resource settings often children face the challenge of meeting the requirements of rigid ART adherence schedules and frequent relapses. This and the long-term duty of care has an impact on the primary caregiver s experience of this highly stigmatised illness - an impact that is often described in relation to psychological deprivation. Reflecting the meanings attached to caregiving by 48 children in Western Kenya articulated in writing through photography and drawing individual and group interviews this paper presents three case studies of young caregiving. Although all the children involved in the study coped with their circumstances .