Marseille 2007
| Abstract #140 - The problematic of the enrollment of children in ARV therapy and the role of parents in helping them follow up: a psychosocial analysis | ||||
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Session: 6.33: Posters A (Poster) on Monday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Mr SOUBEIGA Daogo Jacques Abraham - Association Epoir et Vie, Burkina Faso |
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| Additional Authors: Dr TOUGOUMA Jean Baptiste, | ||||
| Aim: To assess the ability of parents in helping their children to start au ART and follow it up. | ||||
| Method / Issue: The present study is on the beginning and has already concerned 10 parents and their children refereed in order to warrant their psychological ability of starting a treatment and following it up. The main matter that we have to deal with is about the arrangements that the parents must make in order to explain to those young children the necessity of starting an ARV therapy and how to help them on that way. So the process was to firstly discuss with the parents with the view to understanding their own condition in concern with the disclosure of their sero-status in their family, precisely to their children, their perception of the ARV treatment and to measuring the quality of relationship between them and their children and their capability to communicate about sex and reproductive health. That first stage permits to perceive the problems that parents are to face in sharing the serology with their children and moreover how to cope with enrolling those young infected ones to therapy. So we received 10 parents (4 fathers and 6 mothers). Later we received 10 children (3 girls and 7 boys) together with the parents in order to support the relationship and make sure that the youths are able to start the therapy and be helped by their parents in that life-time health care. | ||||
| Results / Comments: The results that we will underline are around the principal that the parents face when they are to help their kids starting and following up a therapy. - More mothers than fathers were principally concerned (60%); which is a socio-cultural matter because men in our context generally keep away from the question of HIV/AIDS - The non-disclosure of the parents (100%) and the childrens sero-status to the children, considering that they are too young to understand. The drawbacks are that some already under therapy refuse to take their medicines along. - The perception about the ART is an important problem due to some parents (60%) making obstacles because of social prejudices. - The problem of illiteracy of some parents (70%) remains a fence against well explaining the necessity of the treatment to their children. - As regards to the children we notice that the lack of information makes them fear about the treatment; in fact the parents (100%) make a projection of their own fears to their children. | ||||
| Discussion: That beginning study shows us that the matter of children enrollment in ARV treatment is tied up to some psychosocial ins and outs concerning the condition of the parents, the disclosure of their status and a serious problem of communication with their family. So we think that the task of the actors in treatment care is burdensome in sustaining parents helping their children to start and follow up an ART. | ||||
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