Title:
Assessment of the quality of life and the psychological problems among adolescents living in foster homes : a comparative study / by Vida Mazen Aziz Bannoura ; supervised by Dr. Muna Ahmead . تقييم نوعية الحياة والمشاكل النفسية لدى المراهقين الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 13-18 سنة الذين يعيشون في بيوت الرعاية البديلة مقارنة مع المراهقين الذين يقيمون مع والديهم في المجتمع في مدينتي بيت لحم والخليل
تقييم نوعية الحياة والمشاكل النفسية لدى المراهقين الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 13-18 سنة الذين يعيشون في بيوت الرعاية البديلة مقارنة مع المراهقين الذين يقيمون مع والديهم في المجتمع في مدينتي بيت لحم والخليل تقييم نوعية الحياة والمشاكل النفسية لدى المراهقين الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 13-18 سنة الذين يعيشون في بيوت الرعاية البديلة مقارنة مع المراهقين الذين يقيمون مع والديهم في المجتمع في مدينتي بيت لحم والخليل
Author:
Bannoura,Vida Mazen Aziz, author.
Ahmead, Muna, supervisor.
Al-Quds University (Jerusalem, Palestine). Faculty of Graduate studies. Faculty of Public Health.
General Notes:
Thesis (M. Sc. in Public Health)--Al-Quds University (Jerusalem, Palestine), Faculty of Graduate studies,Faculty of Public Health,
2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background : foster care is the care for children and adolescents outside their natural house that alternates to parental care. Living in the foster care system can influence the child’s perspective about future life and affect his/her quality of life as well as their psychological status. Foster care experience can affect the child emotionally, and it is associated with unfavorable general developmental outcomes as well as lower educational achievement. Aim: to assess quality of life and psychological problems among adolescents aged between 13-18 years who lived in the foster homes compared to the adolescents who resided with their biological parents in the community in Bethlehem and Hebron cities. Method: a case-control design was utilized to achieve this purpose. The data was collected between the middle of March, 2015 and finished at the beginning of May, 2015. Data was collected by using self-reported questionnaire. It consisted of socio-demographic data sheet, Brief Symptom Inventory-53 (BSI-53), and Pediatric Quality of Life Scale (PedsQoL-15). Statistical analysis was performed using the statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 18.0 and were analyzed by using the parametric test such as frequency, T-test, ANOVA, and Pearson Correlation test. Sample size: the sample included 229 participants; 107 from the foster homes (cases) and 122 participants who resided with their biological parents in the community (controls) from the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron and the SOS Village in Bethlehem. Findings: the analysis of the participants showed that 42.1% of the cases were from the SOS Village in Bethlehem and 57.9% were from the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron. Also, 36.1% of the controls were from SOS Village School in Bethlehem and 63.9% were from the Islamic Charitable Society. The majority of the participants from the foster homes were females (54.2%) and the majority of the participants who resided with their biological parents in the community were males (61.5%).
The overall QoL showed that the mean score for the participants from the foster homes was 65.7 compared to 67.8 of the participants who resided with their biological parents in the community.
In addition, five psychological problems have showed the highest scores among the adolescents living in the foster homes compared to the adolescents who resided with their biological parents in the community; which were interpersonal sensitivity, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, and the additional items. In addition, there were two psychological problems showed high scores among the adolescents living with their biological parents in the community compared to the adolescents lived in the foster homes; which were obsession-compulsive and hostility. Moreover, both groups had the same level of scores for three psychological problems; somatization, depression, and anxiety.
Moreover, the final regression model showed statistical significant relationships between the quality of life and the psychological problems and other independent variables such as having psychological history, gender, and place of residence. Additionally, the Pearson’s test revealed weak statistically significant relationship between quality o life and the psychological problems. The strongest relationship was for the emotional domain and the weakest one was for the physical domain. Conclusion: the study found that the general QoL was good for the participants from the foster homes, but it was somewhat lower than the participants who resided with their biological parents in the community. Also, there were a weak and a negative relationship between the quality of life and the psychological problems.
The electronic version is available in theses database \\ University of Jordan.
Includes abstracts in Arabic and English.
Subject:
Teenagers -- Social conditions -- Palestine
Teenagers -- Psychological aspects.
Quality of life
Teenagers -- Social conditions -- Palestine
Dissertation Note:
Thesis (M. Sc. in Public Health)--Al-Quds University (Jerusalem, Palestine), Faculty of Graduate studies,Faculty of Public Health,
2017.
Physical Description:
CD-ROM1 : PDF.
Publication Date:
2017.
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