Hammerstrøm, Karianne Thune | Biedilæ, Sølvi | Nakkerud, Erik | Axelsdottir, Brynhildur | Kornør, Hege
SOS Children’s Villages is working to help ensure access to quality education for children who lack adequate care, and needs research based evidence for the associations between lack of care and children’s learning outcomes. For this reason, RBUP Øst og Sør was asked to systematically review research on the consequences of lack of care on children’s educational outcomes. Our objective was to answer the following research questions: How does child neglect and child abuse affect children’s learning outcomes? How does being an orphan affect children’s learning outcomes? We sought to answer question one by conducting a rapid systematic review, and to answer question two by producing a systematic mapping of relevant studies. The research evidence suggests that children who have been exposed to abuse, maltreatment or neglect in childhood perform worse in school than unexposed children. The studies we found vary in methodological quality, and better quality research is needed to confirm these findings. The scientific literature regarding school performance in orphans is yet to be explored, although the number of potentially relevant studies identified in our search suggests that a systematic review of might prove useful.
105 s., utgitt av Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse, Helseregion Øst og Sør (RBUP) i 2016.