A SCOPING STUDY TO UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE AND IMPACT ANALYSIS OF MALTREATMENT OF CHILD LABORERS IN CONTEXT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Back to Page Authors: M. Abdul Ahad, Yvonne Parry

Keywords: maltreatment, child laborer, scoping study, developing country

Abstract: The scoping study assists to map the emerging complex and narrowly studied evidence like maltreatment on child laborers. The present scoping review is an effort to find out the risk patterns and adverse health outcomes associated with the maltreatment of child laborers. This scoping review followed PRISMA diagram to select most eligible and pertinent pieces of literature related to maltreatment of child laborers in the context of developing countries. The descriptive statistics and ‘The thematic analysis’ were used to identify saturated themes associated with the maltreatment of child laborers. The thematic analysis was performed using NVivo software version 12. The systematic searching on identified databases results in 13 most eligible records which encompass three peer-reviewed articles, one organizational report and 9 newspaper features. The data extraction and thematic analysis identified some patterns influencing child labor maltreatment such as children’s self-portfolio, parental SES, poverty, dysfunctions in the family environment, workplace culture, social and cultural acceptancy and the dearth of researches, policy and prosecution. Health outcomes of maltreatment show child workers often inured physically like bruises, abrasions, burn and other mild injuries on head or face; psychological disorders include anxiety disorder, social phobia, separation anxiety, sleeping disorders, specific phobia, panic attack etc. Context-specific findings and implications can be considered for intervention and future research direction.