Table 2.
Distribution of Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale items [23–25] towards the burden of generalized anxiety 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) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Some-times | Often | Always | Never | Some-times | Often | Always | Never | Some-times | Often | Always | |
| I worry about things | 105 | 73 | 100 | 118 | 37 | 38 | 47 | 77 | 68 | 35 | 53 | 41 |
| (30.5) | (10.8) | (25.3) | (29.8) | (18.6) | (19.1) | (23.6) | (38.7) | (34.5) | (17.8) | (26.9) | (20.8) | |
| When I have a problem, I get a funny feeling in my stomach | 85 | 104 | 137 | 70 | 30 | 48 | 72 | 49 | 55 | 56 | 65 | 21 |
| (21.5) | (26.3) | (34.6) | (17.7) | (15.1) | (24.1) | (36.2) | (24.6) | (27.9) | (28.4) | (33.0) | (10.7) | |
| I feel afraid | 88 | 78 | 108 | 122 | 30 | 22 | 53 | 94 | 58 | 56 | 55 | 28 |
| (22.2) | (19.7) | (27.3) | (30.8) | (15.1) | (11.1) | (26.6) | (47.2) | (29.4) | (28.4) | (27.9) | (14.2) | |
| When I have a problem, my heart beats really fast | 46 | 100 | 148 | 102 | 16 | 47 | 60 | 76 | 30 | 53 | 88 | 26 |
| (11.6) | (25.3) | (37.4) | (25.8) | (8.0) | (23.6) | (30.2) | (38.2) | (15.2) | (26.9) | (44.7) | (13.2) | |
| I worry that something bad will happen to me | 141 | 90 | 76 | 89 | 56 | 34 | 32 | 77 | 85 | 56 | 44 | 12 |
| (35.6) | (22.7) | (19.2) | (22.5) | (28.1) | (17.1) | (16.1) | (38.7) | (43.1) | (28.4) | (22.3) | (6.1) | |
| When I have a problem, I feel shaky | 80 | 103 | 129 | 84 | 24 | 52 | 53 | 70 | 56 | 51 | 76 | 14 |
| (20.2) | (26.0) | (32.6) | (21.2) | (12.1) | (26.1) | (26.6) | (35.2) | (28.4) | (25.9) | (38.6) | (7.1) | |