Table 3 Distribution of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [26–30] items towards the burden of conduct and peer relationship problem among the orphaned children in Hyderabad (not mutually exclusive)
Item description | Total orphans (N = 396; % of N) | Children orphaned by HIV/AIDS (N = 199; % of N) | Children orphaned by other reasons (N = 197; % of N) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Not true | Somewhat true | Certainly true | Not true | Somewhat true | Certainly true | Not true | Somewhat true | Certainly true | |
Conduct problem | |||||||||
 I get very angry and often lose my temper | 104 | 103 | 189 | 32 | 44 | 123 | 72 | 59 | 66 |
(26.3) | (26.0) | (47.7) | (16.1) | (22.1) | (61.8) | (36.5) | (29.9) | (33.5) | |
 I usually do as I am told | 260 | 67 | 69 | 140 | 24 | 35 | 120 | 43 | 34 |
(65.7) | (16.9) | (17.4) | (70.4) | (12.1) | (17.6) | (60.9) | (21.8) | (17.3) | |
 I fight a lot | 185 | 100 | 111 | 64 | 47 | 88 | 121 | 53 | 23 |
(46.7) | (25.3) | (28.0) | (32.2) | (23.6) | (44.2) | (61.4) | (26.9) | (11.7) | |
 I am often accused of lying or cheating | 270 | 58 | 68 | 123 | 39 | 37 | 147 | 19 | 31 |
(68.2) | (14.6) | (17.2) | (61.8) | (19.6) | (18.6) | (74.6) | (9.6) | (15.7) | |
 I take things that are not mine | 348 | 22 | 26 | 174 | 9 | 16 | 174 | 13 | 10 |
(87.9) | (5.6) | (6.6) | (87.4) | (4.5) | (8.0) | (88.3) | (6.6) | (5.1) | |
Peer relationship problem | |||||||||
 I am usually on my own | 253 | 69 | 74 | 99 | 45 | 55 | 154 | 24 | 19 |
(63.9) | (17.4) | (18.7) | (49.7) | (22.6) | (27.6) | (78.2) | (12.2) | (9.6) | |
 I have one good friend or more | 278 | 87 | 31 | 109 | 66 | 24 | 169 | 21 | 7 |
(70.2) | (22.0) | (7.8) | (54.8) | (33.2) | (12.1) | (85.8) | (10.7) | (3.6) | |
 Other people of my age generally like me | 248 | 113 | 35 | 100 | 77 | 22 | 148 | 36 | 13 |
(62.6) | (28.5) | (8.8) | (50.3) | (38.7) | (11.1) | (75.1) | (18.3) | (6.6) | |
 Other children or young people tease or harass me | 266 | 77 | 53 | 103 | 57 | 39 | 163 | 20 | 14 |
(67.2) | (19.4) | (13.4) | (51.8) | (28.6) | (19.6) | (82.7) | (10.2) | (7.1) | |
 I get on better with adults than with people of my age | 101 | 113 | 182 | 52 | 62 | 85 | 49 | 51 | 97 |
(25.5) | (28.5) | (46.0) | (26.1) | (31.2) | (42.7) | (24.9) | (25.9) | (49.2) | |