Factors affecting the success rate of rehabilitation and reintegration of children in street situations CSS in the society / Nardine Fathy Fouad Nakhla ; Supervised Hanna Mohammed Aboulghar , Osama Refaat Ibrahim , Carolyne Morcos Ibrahim

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

To study the physical and psychiatric aspects of children in street situation (CSS) and to identify the factors that influence the decision of these street youth to run-away from rehabilitation homes. To study the impulsivity factor and to correlate between the impulsiveness and the run-away behavior among these street youth from rehabilitation homes. Also to correlate between the impulsivness and the behavioral difficulties and the history of childhood maltreatment among the CSS. Subjects and methods: This is a case-control study that included 100 street youth, 90 females and 10 males, aged 12-16 years and 100 children, as a control group from both sexes with an age range (12-16 years old). All cases and controls-underwent full physical examination, and the psycological evaluation was done by the arabic version of the impulsivity behaviors scale (UPPS) and the strenghts and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) and the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ). The group of street children who did run away before from rehabilitation homes scored higher in all the UPPS scales{u2019} categories (urgency, lack of premeditation and lack of perseverance) except for sensation seeking, in comparison to the group who did not run away before. There is correlation between the impact of the impulsivity factor and these street children{u2019}s behavior and decision to live in rehabilitation homes or the run-away from them. There is also a correlation between impulsive personality and the behavioral difficulties and the history of childhood trauma among CSS

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