Results of the current study suggest that, among an institutionalized population, children exposed to maltreatment are more likely to have decreased secure attachment and increased insecure attachment, which in turn affects the level of self-esteem and subsequent depressive symptoms.
These findings have been replicated in South Africa, with depressed mothers exhibiting less sensitive engagement with their infants [ 16] resulting in increased insecure attachment in the infants [ 19].
To develop evidence that the SMNC initiative has led to increased coverage of high quality maternal and neonatal health care by trained, private-sector community midwives in underserved and insecure districts of Baluchistan.
In the retrospective study, the feeling of being abandoned seemed to increase when children were afraid, insecure, or absorbed in their own thoughts about the treatment and illness, without having their parents nearby.
One girl said that while she could advise her boyfriend on how to increase her pleasure, she wouldn't, because he's "very insecure" about his lack of experience.
UNICEF has supported Ethiopia to increase national capacity to treat severe acute malnutrition in drought and food insecure districts like Fedis from almost nothing in 2004 to 8,800 sites today.
Sudan – 4.6 million people are food insecure, primarily due to the effects of El Niño, and this is likely to increase due to below-average agricultural production last year, rising staple food prices and continued conflict.
The job market for young people is increasingly insecure, and low paid: it is sobering to think that the hourly minimum wage for an under-19 apprentice is about to increase from £2.73 to a munificent £3.30.
Overall, 20.5% of adolescents were food insecure in the first round survey, while the proportion of adolescents with food insecurity increased to 48.4% one year later.
Should I stay or should I go? (SoG; failed innovation; rollercoaster economic decline): characterised by failing to address economic crises, political instability, increased inequality and an insecure, unstable world.
