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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Debiasi, Laura B
• Reynolds, Annette
• Buckner, Ellen B

Titel

Assessing emotional well-being of children in a Honduran orphanage: feasibility of two screening tools

Ist Teil von

• Pediatric nursing, 2012-05, Vol.38 (3), p.169

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined mental health in children to be a priority area for evidence-based interventions. Effective and efficient screening methods are needed to assess emotional well-being of children from diverse cultures. This descriptive study examined two tools for feasibility, sensitivity, cultural appropriateness, and cost/time effectiveness. Emotional well-being was conceptualized using the Roy Adaptation Model as part of the self-concept adaptive mode. Emotional indicators were measured from Human Figure Drawings. Anxiety was measured using a modification of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Survey (RCMAS). The sample included 11 girls who were 7 to 12 years of age and recruited from a girls' orphanage in Honduras. Results indicated the Human Figure Drawings identified more children possibly at risk than the RCMAS. Human Figure Drawings were found to be a time/cost-effective, sensitive, and culturally appropriate means for measuring emotional well-being in the setting. This study contributes to nursing knowledge by demonstrating feasibility of the screening tools for measuring emotional well-being of children in varied cultures.