Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Acta Paediatr. 2022 Jul;111(7):1390-1398. doi: 10.1111/apa.16315. Epub 2022 Mar 7.
This study investigated the perceptions of men who worked on the streets of Iraq when they were children. It looked at the risks they faced, how they developed resilience and what support they feel current working children need.
In 2021, semi-structured interviews were held with 40 men aged 24-33 who used to work on the streets as children. They had attended the Zewa Centre, a drop-in centre for street-working children in 2004-2005. Thematic analysis was used to explore the transcribed interviews.
Positive feedback focused on how they developed working and social skills and felt proud to support their families. Negative feedback included the consequences on their social lives and mental and physical health. Their suggestions for preventing street work in children were financial support, so that families could send their children back to school, and programmes that offer social skills training and vocational training. Social support from families, other adults and peers was very important.
Working on the streets had positive and negative consequences and support from family and friends influenced the men's attitudes in adulthood. They suggested that financial support, education and social and vocational training would be very important for today's street-working children.
本研究调查了伊拉克街头儿童时期工作的男性的看法。研究着眼于他们面临的风险、他们如何培养韧性，以及他们认为当前街头工作的儿童需要哪些支持。
2021 年，对 40 名年龄在 24-33 岁之间、曾在儿童时期在街头工作的男性进行了半结构式访谈。他们曾在 2004-2005 年参加过 Zewa 中心，这是一个为街头工作儿童提供的临时收容中心。使用主题分析来探讨转录的访谈。
积极的反馈集中在他们如何发展工作和社交技能以及感到自豪地支持家庭上。负面反馈包括对他们社交生活以及心理健康和身体健康的影响。他们对防止儿童从事街头工作的建议是提供经济支持，以便家庭可以送孩子回学校，以及提供社交技能培训和职业培训的计划。家庭、其他成年人和同龄人的社会支持非常重要。
在街头工作有积极和消极的后果，家庭和朋友的支持影响着成年男性的态度。他们建议，经济支持、教育以及社会和职业培训对当前的街头工作儿童非常重要。
