Prevalence and predictors of psychosocial outcomes amongst socioeconomically deprived primary school children in a rural setting in South Africa: the role of ecological factors

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dc.contributor.authorHlungwani, Tintswalo Mercy
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-07T07:16:21Z
dc.date.available2015-09-07T07:16:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa is passing through a phase of transition and children living in the country are still subject to many social and financial problems. They face high levels of social adversity, socio-economic deprivation, migration, displacement and morbidity. Rural South African children’s right to education and physical and mental health remains unfulfilled because of exposure to on-going adversity including poverty, family disruption through labour migration, malnutrition, inter-personal violence, chronic illness and death of family members due to HIV/AIDS. Although numerous studies highlight psychosocial problems amongst these children in South Africa and even document risk factors, there is paucity of studies that have focused on rural children’s mental health with consideration to both protective and risk factors. The study is focused on primary school children aged 8-12 in grades 5 and 6. It examines the prevalence of psychosocial problems among these children and determines the socio-demographic factors which can serve as predictors of psychological outcomes in these children. The study looks at both risk factors and protective factors as predictors of said psychological outcomes.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/18484
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.meshPsychology, Child
dc.subject.meshPsychosocial Deprivation
dc.subject.meshSocioeconomic Factors
dc.subject.meshEcology
dc.titlePrevalence and predictors of psychosocial outcomes amongst socioeconomically deprived primary school children in a rural setting in South Africa: the role of ecological factorsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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