Education status among orphans and non-orphans in communities affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Burkina Faso

Childhood Adversity, Recent Life Stressors and Suicidal Behavior in Chinese College Students

“…Previous research shows that the loss of a parent can lead to a series of developmental disadvantages resulting in poor education [3][4][5][6][7], such as lags in grade for age and school attendance relative to non-orphans [3,7,8]. In contrast, other studies find little negative impact of parental death on child education [9][10][11] and instead find that alternative factors such as wealth, age, or the child's relationship to the head of household are better predictors of education outcomes [12]. Importantly, many of these studies are restricted to single country analyses, rendering results arguably context specific.…”

“…The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a behavioral screening tool, designed for children ages [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], that measures psychosocial well-being across five dimensions: (1) emotional symptoms, (2) conduct problems, (3) hyperactivity/inattention, (4) peer relationship problems, and (5) prosocial behavior. Each subscale has 5 items, scored on a 3-point Likert scale (0-2).…”

Demographic and clinical features of orphans and nonorphans at a pediatric HIV centre in North India

“…12 Other studies showed no such difference. 8,11,13 One study showed that the complete orphans were most affected in terms of schooling. 13 Decreased school enrolment and attendance among orphans could be due to inability of the extended family to educate all the children of the household because of financial constraints, the orphaned child being the first to face discontinuation of studies.…”

Sibling caregiving among children orphaned by AIDS: Synthesis of recent studies for policy implications

“…Articles used for qualitative analysis of constructs, factors, and impacts of sibling caregiving are shown in Table 2 [5,[9][10][11][12][13][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. To answer the second question, 'what kinds of care comprise sibling caregiving', we tabulated the sibling caregiving described in the articles and developed a framework (Table 3).…”

“…However, the rapid increase in orphans has overburdened the extended family network, leading to the emergence of child-headed households [6,7]. Child-headed households are more likely to have economic constraints [8,9]; have poor accommodation [10]; be disadvantaged in education [11,12]; and have physical [13], nutritional [14], and psychological [15,16] problems.…”