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Abstract
Around the world, more than eight millions of girls and boys grow up for long periods of their lives not in their own families but in residential institutions. According to the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity (2011) there were 12916 children living in 513 residential institutions, residential nurseries and children’s villages for care of children deprived from family care. This number is expected to increase due to large number of street children and at risk children in families experiencing high levels of poverty, violence and other forms of disadvantage.
Children are placed in residential institutions because they life in a harsh social conditions due to death of one or both parents, parent’s illness, adverse economic circumstances, unknown parenthood, cracked family, parent’s imprisonment and family inability to provide proper care. Overall, children are placed in residential care facilities because they are not able to enjoy an adequate quality of life (QOL) at home.
Quality of life concern the satisfaction of individual’s needs and demands, which are necessary for his satisfaction with life. Nevertheless, institutionalized children are suffering from complex mix of social, perceptual, physical, intellectual, and emotional deprivation. Moreover, they are usually experience different forms of maltreatment and neglect. As a result, the institutionalization can adversely affect the children’s QOL. Hence, this study was conducted to identify the quality of life among children deprived from family care in residential institutions in El-Beheira governorate.
A descriptive research design was used to conduct this study. It had been carried out in all 10 residential institutions for care of children deprived from family care affiliated to the Ministry of Solidarity and Social Justice in El-Beheira governorate namely: ”Tahseen Elseha”, ”Mostafa Kamel”, ”El-zohore”, ”El-abaadia female institution”, ”El-hanan”, ”El-abaadia male institution” ,”El wafaa”, ”El-waldine El-khairia”, ”Mary Guergis ”, and ”Elsayeda El-azraa” .
The present study subjects included all residents, boys and girls in the previously mentioned residential institutions aged from 6 to17 years and free from any mental or physical disabilities .They were 214 children (92 males and 122 females).
Three tools were used in this study (quality of life among children deprived from family care in residential institutions in El-Beheira governorate). Tool I: Residential children health profile structured interview schedule: it was developed by the researcher after reviewing recent literature in order to collect required data about the institutionalized children’s demographic characteristics, health history, and life style. Tool II: KINDL R quality of life questionnaire. A generic instrument for assessing health-related quality of life in children and adolescents aged 4 years and older. It was developed by Sieberer & Bullinger in 1994. Arabic translated version of the questionnaire was adopted from tool used in a research study conducted in Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University by Ramadan S 2010 . Tool III: Satisfaction with life scale (SWLS). It was developed by Diener E, et al in 1985 to assess satisfaction with the respondent’s life as a whole. The Arabic translated version of the scale was adopted from the tool used in a research study conducted in University of Heriot-Watt, Iraq by Aljurany K 2013.The tools were tested for validity by Jury composed of (five) experts in the field of Community Health Nursing. Approvals were obtained for conducting the study at the specified settings. A pilot study was carried on (25) (13 female &12 male) institutionalized children to evaluate items clarity and relevance of study tools and to identify the possible obstacles that may hinder the process of data collection. The study was conducted in a period of 4 months (from May to September 2016). Data was collected by the researcher then appropriate descriptive and analytical statistics were carried out such as arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Chi square and Monte Carlo tests of significance.