IV World Congress on Traumatic Stress Qualitative research on the psychosocial impact of war on children in Burundi and Indonesia Wietse A. Tol - HealthNet TPO/ Vrije University Amsterdam Ria Reis - University of Amsterdam Dessy Susanty - CWS Indonesia Adolphe Sururu - HealthNet TPO Burundi Aline Ndayisaba - HealthNet TPO Burundi Joop T.V.M. de Jong - HealthNet TPO/ Vrije University Amsterdam “It never rains… it pours”
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IV World Congress on Traumatic Stress
Qualitative research on the psychosocial impact of war on children in Burundi and
Indonesia
Wietse A. Tol - HealthNet TPO/ Vrije University Amsterdam
Ria Reis - University of Amsterdam
Dessy Susanty - CWS Indonesia
Adolphe Sururu - HealthNet TPO Burundi
Aline Ndayisaba - HealthNet TPO Burundi
Joop T.V.M. de Jong - HealthNet TPO/ Vrije University Amsterdam
“It never rains… it pours”
Presentation contents• Introduction• Research Objectives• Methodology
– Setting & Procedures• Results
– Summary of informants– Most relevant problems – Damage to the social fabric– Morality problems
• Discussion/ Suggestions for psychosocial interventions
Introduction: HealthNet TPO• HealthNet TPO: a merger of HealthNet
International (medical care in post-conflict settings) and the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (psychosocial care in post-conflict settings)
• HealthNet TPO is an international organization that works to develop research-informed (mental) health and psychosocial care systems in (post-) conflict and (post-) disaster areas, with the aim of increasing structural public (mental) health care
Introduction: Child Thematic Project
• Psychosocial project for children affected by armed conflict in Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan– Public mental health approach; different types of interventions
– Integrated research component to come to evidence-based practices
• Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) on school-based group intervention
• N = 1 study on psychosocial counseling
Research Objectives
• Preparation for RCT on school-based group intervention [ISRCTN25172408, ISRCTN66249480,
ISRCTN42284825] – “Cultural fit” of school-based intervention– Choice & adaptation of outcome instrumentation/
translation
• Research questions– How do community members perceive the
(psychosocial) impact of conflict?– What resources are available in the community to deal
with this impact?
Methodology: setting• Burundi:
– Repeated cycles of killings and violence along ethnic lines since independence, between Hutu’s and Tutsi’s (250,000 to 300,000 killed, 880,000 displaced [Amnesty
International, 2004])– Data collection in rural areas in two Northwestern
provinces, heavily affected by violence
• Central Sulawesi, Indonesia:– Periodic religious communal violence, since 1998 in Poso
region. In 2002: 1,000 killed and 100,000 displaced [Human Rights Watch, 2002]
– Data collected in mixed Muslim/ Christian areas in rural areas around Poso
Methodology: procedures• Key Informant Interviews with child experts in
the community
• Focus Group Discussions with children, teachers, parents
• Semi-structured Interviews with children and parents/ caretakers of affected children
• Informants identified through community meetings and subsequent snowball sampling
Methodology: procedures [cont.]
• 4 local assessors with at least BA in social science• One-month training program, with a focus on
interviewing skills and field-practice• Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed and
translated to English• Content analysis with grounded theory approach
(Strauss & Corbin, 1996)• ATLAS.ti 5 qualitative data analysis software used
Results: Summary of informantsBurundi Indonesia
FGDChildren: 4
Parents: 6
Teachers: 4
FGDChildren: 9
Parents: 11
Teachers: 8
Illness NarrativesN=40: family members, guardians and orphanages
Illness NarrativesN=43: mainly mothers, and other family members
Key InformantsN=32: trad. healers (animist & Christian exorcists), teachers, medical officers, priests/ nuns, NGO-personnel
Key InformantsN=44: trad healers (massage, herbalism), midwives, teachers, medical officers, Koran/ Sunday school teachers, priests
Results: Most important categories
Burundi Indonesia
• Poverty
• Damaged social fabric, especially at family & community level
• Family looses protective function (poverty , deaths)