背景：在非洲中低收入国家研究的大多数街头儿童都没有家庭联系。然而,大多数街头儿童是街头儿童，晚上和家人住在一起，白天在街上度过。尽管儿童街头主义日益流行，但文献中对这一多数群体的健康状况却知之甚少。
目的：使用多项定性研究来探索伊巴丹街头儿童的健康状况。
方法：伊巴丹奥约州五个城市地方政府区域的街道，尼日利亚。
方法：由街头儿童组成的参与者，父母的数字,有目的地挑选街头店主和儿童福利官员并接受采访。采访是录音，转录，并进行了主题分析。
结果：使用来自53次访谈的三角数据，研究发现，伊巴丹街头的儿童经历了许多健康挑战。突出的是基于碳水化合物的饮食，开放性排便伴随着感染，道路交通事故造成的人身伤害和少数死亡。性,尽管很少有儿童获得对逆境的适应能力，但言语和药物滥用很常见。这些孩子的健康追求行为不佳，并在街上求助于专利药品经销商或医疗从业者。
结论：这项研究弥合了尼日利亚街头儿童健康文献中的一些空白。如本研究所示，儿童在家庭和街道之间的跨界具有累积的健康后果。贡献：这项研究可以为家庭层面的干预和初级卫生保健计划提供信息，以防止街头儿童的健康挑战。
BACKGROUND: Most street children studied in lower- and middle-income African countries are without family links. However, the majority of street children are children on the street, living with families during the night and spending their day-time on the streets. The health of this majority group is poorly captured in the literature despite the growing epidemic of child streetism.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the health of children on the street of Ibadan using multiple qualitative studies.
METHODS: A street in each of the five urban local government areas of Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria.
METHODS: Participants comprising of children on the street, parental figures, street shop owners and child-welfare officers were purposively selected and interviewed. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed.
RESULTS: Using triangulated data from 53 interviews, the study found that the children on the streets of Ibadan experienced many health challenges. Outstanding are poor carbohydrate-based diet, open defaecation with consequent infections, physical injuries and few deaths from road traffic accidents. Sexual, verbal and substance abuse were common although few children acquired resilience to adversity. The children had poor health-seeking behaviour and resorted to patent medicine dealers or tradomedical practitioners on the streets.
CONCLUSIONS: This study bridged some gaps in the literature regarding the health of children on the streets in Nigeria. The straddling of children between the family and street has cumulative health consequences as depicted in this study.Contribution: This research can inform family-level intervention and primary health care plans to forestall the health challenges of children on the streets.
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