Education, Age and Gender: Critical Factors in Determining Interventions for Child Brick Workers in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

ABSTRACT: Working in factories fashioning bricks by hand seems the epitome of hazardous child labor. Yet, efforts to remove children from this work have shown little success; impoverished families balance the value of their children's contribution against the risks they see. Unfortunately, psychosocial impacts are often not visible, and are rarely taken into consideration when designing interventions. A comprehensive occupational health study of children working in brick factories included a module on psychosocial risks and impacts. This analysis reports on the Pakistan and Afghanistan portion of the study which was administered to 450 child brick workers and 486 controls, aged 11-17. Factorial ANOVAs confirmed that working in brick factories was the strongest predictor of respondent's psychosocial

SUBMITTER: Pellenq C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9180764 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature