Johannessen Steinar, Holgersen Helge
1Oslo University Hospital, Søndre Nordstrand Clinic, Oslo, Norway.
Qual Health Res. 2014 Jan;24(1):55-66. doi: 10.1177/1049732313513655. Epub 2013 Nov 20.
With this article, we explore how staff working at transit centers and vocational training centers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced the problems and needs of former child soldiers. We argued that the staff's experience of the children's daily lives and their understanding of the sociocultural context of the conflict make their perspective a valuable source of information when trying to understand the phenomenon of child soldiering. Additionally, we reasoned that how the staff frame these children's problems influences how they attempt to aid the children. We conducted 11 semistructured interviews and analyzed these using a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach. We clustered our findings around six themes: unfavorable contextual factors, acting as if still in the army, addiction, symptoms of psychopathology, social rejection, and reintegration needs. The overarching message we observed was that the informants experienced that former child soldiers require help to be transformed into civilians who participate proactively in their society.
在本文中，我们探讨了刚果民主共和国东部转运中心和职业培训中心的工作人员如何看待前儿童兵的问题和需求。我们认为，工作人员对儿童日常生活的体验以及他们对冲突社会文化背景的理解，使得他们的观点在试图理解儿童兵现象时成为宝贵的信息来源。此外，我们推断工作人员对这些儿童问题的界定方式会影响他们帮助儿童的方式。我们进行了11次半结构化访谈，并采用诠释现象学方法进行分析。我们将研究结果归纳为六个主题：不利的背景因素、表现得仍像在军队中、成瘾、精神病理学症状、社会排斥和重新融入需求。我们观察到的总体信息是，受访者认为前儿童兵需要帮助才能转变为积极参与社会的平民。
