"they don't care what happens to us." the situation of double orphans heading households in Rakai District, Uganda

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dalen, Nina ^a   Nakitende, Ann Jacqueline ^b   Musisi, Seggane ^c  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORPHANED CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UGANDA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; SCHOOL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, ORPHANED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SCHOOLS; UGANDA;

EID: 70349682742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-321     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. K Malterud, Kvalitative metoder i medisinsk forskning: en innføring Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 3 2006
2. Northern Uganda Psycho-Social Needs Assessment. T Barton A Mutiti, The Republic of Uganda & UNICEF. KISUBI 1998
3. State of Uganda Population Report. Planned Urbanization for Uganda's Growing Population. UNFPA Uganda, 2007 http://www.popsec.org/documents/ State%20of%20Uganda%20Population%20Report%202007.pdf
4. Situation analysis of orphans in Uganda: Orphans and their households: Caring for the future today. A Wakhweya C Kateregga J Konde-Lule R Mukyala L Sabin M Williams HK Heggenhougen, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Kampala 2002
5. Children living in difficult circumstances: Vulnerability and coping mechanisms of child headed households in Rakai, Uganda. S Neema JK Ssekiwanuka D Ssedyabule, Makerere University, Institute of Social Research, Kampala 2000
6. Approved Three Year Rolled District Development Plan. Rakai District Local Government, Rakai 2004
7. Factors leading to the establishment of child-headed households: the case of Zimbabwe. G Foster C Makufa R Drew E Kralovec, Health Transition Review 1997 7 Supplement to Volume 7 155 168
8. Female Headed Households and Child Headed Households. Baseline Survey Report. Rakai Councellors' Association, Rakai 2006
9. Psychological distress among AIDS orphans in rural Uganda. B Atwine E Cantor-Graae F Bajunirwe, Social Science & Medicine 2005 61 3 555 564 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.12.018 (Pubitemid 40724601)
10. The Nature of Child-headed Households in Rakai District, Uganda. F Luzze D Ssedyabule, Geneva Lutheran World Federation, Concern Worldwide, Orphans Community-Based Organization and Medicins du Monde 2004
11. What happened in Uganda? Declining HIV Prevalence, Behavior Change, and the National Response. USAID, 2000 http://www.usaid.gov/our-work/global-health/ aids/Countries/africa/uganda-report.pdf
12. Children rearing children: a study of child-headed households. G Foster, The socio-demographic impact of AIDS in Africa. Based on the conference organized by the Committee on AIDS of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 3-6 February 1997. Papers Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP] 1997 22
13. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final Report of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. WHO, 2008 http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/ 9789241563703-eng.pdf
14. The OVC toolkit for SSA. A Toolkit on how to support Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). World Bank, World Bank's Africa Region and World Bank Institute 2 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/ docs/library/164047/other/OVCtoolkit.pdf
15. Orphans and other Vulnerable Children Integrated Strategic Plan Five Year 2007-2012. Rakai District Local Government, The Republic of Uganda 2008 http://www.coreinitiative.org/Grants/rfa/Central/Rakai-SP.pdf
16. Who are the most vulnerable? Disaggregating orphan categories and identifying child outcome status in Tanzania. J Baarøy D Webb, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 2008 3 2 August 2008 92 101 10.1080/ 17450120802195359
17. Health-seeking behavior for malaria among child and adult headed households in Rakai District, Uganda. B Amuge F Wabwire-Mangen C Puta GW Pariyo N Bakyaitas S Staedke, African Health Sciences 2004 4 2 119 124 15477191
18. Care for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS the Urgent Need for International Standards, 2004. http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.40/GDD-2005- HIV-AIDS-NOTE.pdf
19. Developmental catch-up, and deficit, following adoption after severe global early privation. M Rutter English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study team, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 1998 39 4 465 476 10.1017/S0021963098002236 (Pubitemid 28211858)
20. Psychosocial needs assessment of orphans and non-orphans in Uganda: A case study in Masaka District. P Baguma E Kyomugisha SN Kimeze, Comparative studies of orphans and non-orphans in Uganda Boston: Center for International Health and Development Boston University School of Public Health, Heggenhougen HK, Sabin L, Laurence K, 2004
21. Beyond education and food: psychosocial well-being of orphans in Africa. G Foster, Acta Paediatrica 2002 91 5 502 504 10.1080/080352502753711588 12113315
22. A developmental psychopathology framework of the psychosocial needs of children orphaned by HIV. XM Li S Naar-King D Barnett B Stanton XY Fang C Thurston, Janac-Journal of the Association of Nurses in Aids Care 2008 19 2 147 157 10.1016/j.jana.2007.08.004
23. The psychological effect of orphanhood: a study of orphans in Rakai District. J Sengendo J Nambi, Health Transition Review 1997 7 105 124 10169639
24. The emotional and behavioural problems of orphans as seen in Rakai District, Uganda. S Musisi E Kinyanda J Nakigudde, Comparative studies of Orphans and Non-orphans in Uganda Boston: Center for International Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Heggenhougen HK, Sabin L, Laurence K, 2004
25. A review of current literature of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa. G Foster J Willamson, AIDS 2000 14 Suppl 3 275 S284 11086871
26. Targeting AIDS orphans and child-headed households? A perspective from national surveys in South Africa, 1995-2005. LM Richter C Desmond, Aids Care-Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of Aids/Hiv 2008 20 9 1019 1028
27. Uganda Population and Housing Census. Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Uganda Bureau of Statistics 2002 http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/ pdf%20documents/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf
28. Uganda project profile Rakai-Kooki. World Vision, World Vision 2007 http://www.worldvision.org.nz/wherewework/profiles/p-Uganda-Rakaikooki.asp
29. S Kvale, Interviev: en introduktion til det kvalitative forskningsinterview København: Hans Reitzels Forl 1997
30. MB Miles AM Huberman, Qualitative data analysis: an expanded sourcebook Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage 2 1994
31. A Giorgi, Phenomenology and psychological research: essays Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press 1985
32. The psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. L Cluver F Gardner, BioMed Central 2006 5 8 Annals of General Psychiatry
33. Attachment and Loss - Retrospect and Prospect. J Bowlby, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 1982 52 4 664 678 7148988
34. U Bronfenbrenner, The ecology of human development: experiments by nature and design Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1979
35. J Ogden L Nyblade, Common at its core:HIV-related stigma across contexts Washington DC: International Center for Research on Women 2005 http://www.icrw.org/docs/2005-report-stigma-synthesis.pdf
36. HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action. R Parker P Aggleton, Soc Sci Med 2003 57 1 13 24 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00304-0 12753813
37. Uganda Statistics. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda-statistics. html
38. The effects of HIV infection and AIDS on children in Africa. LZ Gilborn, Western Journal of Medicine 2002 176 1 11788529
39. Children and HIV and AIDS. http://www.unicef.org/aids/index-35330.html
40. Hunger: Its impact on children's health and mental health. L Weinreb C Wehler J Perloff R Scott D Hosmer L Sagor C Gundersen, Pediatrics 2002 110 4 12359814
41. Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory. GW Evans MA Schamberg, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 106 6545 6549 10.1073/pnas.0811910106
42. Post-traumatic stress in former Ugandan child soldiers. S McKay MG Wessells, The Lancet 2004 363 9421 1646 1647 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16211-9
43. Life events and depression in the context of the changing African family. WW Muhwezi H gren S Neema S Musisi A Maganda, World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review 2007 2 1 10 27
44. A Giddens, Sociology Cambridge: Polity Press 2 1993
45. AC MacIntyre, Dependent rational animals: why human beings need the virtues Chicago, Ill.: Open Court 1999
46. Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease. BG Link J Phelan, Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Extra Issue: Forty Years of Medical Sociology. The State of the Art and Directions of the Future 1995 35 80 94
47. T Barnett A Whiteside, AIDS in the twenty-first century: disease and globalization Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2002
48. Socialization, choice and good action related to children in difficult circumstances: essay on theory of social science. N Dalen, Vitenskapsteoretiske refleksjoner Bergen: Høgskolen i Bergen, Avdeling for helse-og sosialfag, Sudmann T, Hole GO, 2004 19 41
49. Who are the most vulnerable? Disaggregating orphan categories and identifying child outcome status in Tanzania. J Baarøy D Webb, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 2008 3 2 August 2008 92 101 10.1080/ 17450120802195359
50. The Revised National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS Activities in Uganda: 2003/4 - 2005/6. The Republic of Uganda, 2004 http://www.aidsuganda.org/ texbits/The%20Final%20Revised%20National%20Strategic%20Framework%20for%20HIV.pdf
51. N Branden, The psychology of self-esteem; a new concept of man's psychological nature Los Angeles: Nash Pub. Corp 1969
52. Social support, social networks, social cohesion and health. LF Berkman, Social Work in Health Care 2000 31 2 3 14 10.1300/J010v31n02-02 11081851
53. Social Networks, Host-Resistance, and Mortality - 9-Year Follow-up-Study of Alameda County Residents. LF Berkman SL Syme, American Journal of Epidemiology 1979 109 2 186 204 425958
54. Global mental health 1 - No health without mental health. M Prince V Patel S Saxena M Maj J Maselko MR Phillips A Rahman, The Lancet 2007 370 9590 859 877 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61238-0 (Pubitemid 47371145)
55. Barriers to the community support of orphans and vulnerable youth in Rwanda. TR Thurman LA Snider NW Boris E Kalisa L Nyirazinyoye L Brown, Social Science & Medicine 2008 66 7 1557 1567
56. L Richter G Foster L Sherr, Where the heart is. Meeting the psychosocial needs of young children in the context of HIV/AIDS The Hague: Bernard van Leer Foundation 2006
57. Exploring the link:HIV/AIDS, stigma, discrimination and racism. P Piot, World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 31 August - 8 September 2001. Durban 2001
58. Survival in Child-Headed Households: A Study on the Impact of World Vision Support on Coping Strategies in Child-headed Households in Kakuuto County, Rakai District, Uganda. F Luzze, Dissertation for the degree of Masters of Arts in Theology and Development, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, United Kingdom, in Partnership with World Vision, validated by the University of Leeds, United Kingdom 2002 11799165