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Children's poverty and morbidity override AIDS-related orphanhood in predicting stigma and bullying. Pantelic, M., Langhaug, L., Moonga F.,Wespi, K., Ammann, P., and Gschwend, A. background. UNICEF 2012 55,100 orphans in sub-Saharan Africa 15,000 HIV/AIDS-related orphans. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Children's poverty and morbidity override AIDS-related orphanhood in predicting
stigma and bullyingPantelic, M., Langhaug, L., Moonga F.,Wespi, K., Ammann, P.,
and Gschwend, A.
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UNICEF 2012
55,100 orphans in sub-Saharan Africa
15,000 HIV/AIDS-related orphans
background
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Multiple adversities facing orphans
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REPeRCUSSIONS OF stigmatization and bullying
Boyes & Cluver 2013, Boyes et al. 2014, Geel et al. 2014
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Little known about what factors stigmatize orphans
•Existing research identifies AIDS-related orphanhood as a key stigmatizing marker (Boyes & Cluver 2013)
•Limited programmatic implications
•Other markers?
Interventions should be sensitive to the needs of orphans
Research rationale
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How are 3 stigma markers associated with perceived stigma and bullying victimization in Zambian orphans?
Research question
AIDS-related
orphanhood
AIDS-related
orphanhoodPovertyPoverty MorbidityMorbidity
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Cross-sectional survey (n=957)
•Swiss Academy for Development
Total population sampling of orphaned adolescents (n=484)
•ChildFund Zambia registers
5 communities in Kafue District, Zambia
Ethics approval obtained from University of Zambia
Same-sex face-to-face interviews
METHOD
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Bullying victimization: adapted Multidimensional Peer-Victimization Scale (Mynard & Joseph 2000)
Food insecurity: # of days without food in the past week (Makame et al. 2002, Cluver et al. 2009)
Physical health: past month frequency of somatic complaintsAIDS-related orphanhood: verbal autopsy (WHO 2005)
measures
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15 % lost parent due to HIV/AIDS
25 % reported hunger for 2+ days in past wk
56 % reported 3+ somatic complaints in past mo
72 % reported any perceived stigma
89 % reported any bullying victimization
Descriptive results (orphan sample)
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Perceived Stigma
Bullying Victimization
Standardized β Standardized β
Orphaned by AIDS .02 .01
Poor health .17*** .22***
Food insecurity .23*** .16***
***denotes significance at p<.001 adjusting for age and gender
results
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Together, poor health and food insecurity accounted for:
•10.3 % (R2 change =.103) of the variation in perceived stigma
•9.1 % (R2 change = .091) of the variation in bullying victimization
RESULTS
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Orphan stigma and bullying scores by food insecurity and health
results
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AIDS-related orphanhood NOT associated with stigma or bullying victimization in our sample
Extreme poverty and morbidity were associated with stigma and bullying of orphans.
Potential for: •Poverty alleviation and health promotion programs
•Whole-school approaches (Vreeman and Carroll 2007)
SUMMARY & IMPLICATIONS
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Encouraging note:
We might not be able to change parental cause of death, but we can affect child poverty and health.
SUMMARY & IMPLICATIONS
Thank You
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Do orphan poverty and ill health mediate a link between AIDS-related orphanhood and stigma and bullying?
Bivariate regressions to check whether AIDS-related orphanhood predicts stigma and/or bullying independently of orphan poverty and orphan health
Again, no associations between AIDS-related orphanhood and the two outcomes were found
Post hoc confirmatory analysis
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InterVA software
Probabilistic epidemiological model
DETERMINING PARENTAL CAUSE OF DEATH