�
Of the orphaned youth who ar heading households in rural Rwanda can be
classified as depressed, according to a paper released on September 1,
2008 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,
one
of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Rwanda has one of the largest groups of orphans in the world, a resultant role
of the 1994 genocide and the epidemic of HIV infection. According to
background data in the article, an estimated 290,000 orphans
lived in the country in 2005. The authors note that these children are
much placed in adverse conditions as a result: "Most African orphans
have been
absorbed into informal fosterage systems," they say. "Such
systems, however, are increasingly overwhelmed, and many orphans either
head households or live on the street."
To investigate the effects of this change on the group, Neil W. Boris,
M.D., of
the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, and colleagues
examined 539 Rwandan youths wHO were serving as the head of their
households. A total 539 offspring people were evaluated, all younger than
24, with an average age of 20. The youth met with trained interviewers
wHO administered scales that metrical symptoms of grief, depressive disorder,
adult living, and residential district marginalization, as well as surveys
regarding demographics, health, vulnerable conditions, and risky
behaviors.
In examining the data, the scientists establish:
77% of the youth population were playing subsistence
agriculture.
7% of the youth population had six or more geezerhood of
schooling.�
In the status of their parents, 71.4% reported both parents
dead, 26.2% reported one parent dead, and of these, almost 25%
indicated that the genocide led to at least one of their deaths. s
44% reported only eating matchless meal per day in the last
week.�
80% gave a health rating as poor or fair.�
The intermediate depression scale score was higher than the
standard cutoff grievance for adolescents. 53% of the subjects were
irrefutable in screening for economic crisis.�
76% agreed with a statement indicating that there is
community rejection or orphans.�
26% strongly in agreement that they had at least one
friend.�
64% said they had lost their confidence in people.�
40% agreed that aliveness was nonmeaningful or had lost faith in
God since their parents' deaths.
The authors note some additional trends trends in this data. "Hunger,
grief, few assets, poor health status and indices of social
marginalisation were associated with more than depressive symptoms in this
sample," they say. "Ten years afterwards the Rwandan genocide and
in the midst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the effects of poverty and
social disruption on the most vulnerable youth in Rwanda are evident."
They state that farther research is needed, examining the families that
are supported by these youths. "The
effect of caregiver depression on younger children living in
youth-headed households is not thus far known," they say. "Further
study of orphans and vulnerable children in countries such as Rwanda,
in particular, studies that inform large-scale interventions, are
necessary if the next generation of young person is to thrive."
Depressive Symptoms in Youth Heads of Household in Rwanda:
Correlates and Implications for Intervention
Neil
W. Boris, MD; Lisanne A. Brown, PhD; Tonya R. Thurman, PhD; Janet C.
Rice, PhD; Leslie M. Snider, MD, MPH; Joseph Ntaganira, PhD; Laetitia
N. Nyirazinyoye, MPH
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(9):836-843.
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