The mental health status of Chinese rural-urban migrant workers : comparison with permanent urban and rural dwellers
| Autor: | Hong-mei Wang, Therese Hesketh, Qin-yuan Lou, Minmin Jiang, Xue-jun Ye, Louman Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Gerontology
Adult Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty China Health (social science) Time Factors Social Psychology Urban Population Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Health Status Immigration Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Asian People Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention medicine Prevalence Humans media_common Demography Transients and Migrants Public health Mental Disorders Middle Aged Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Marital status Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 42(9) |
| ISSN: | 0933-7954 |
| Popis: | There are currently around 120 million rural–urban migrants in China. Elsewhere migration has been associated with increased vulnerability to mental health problems. This study was conducted to explore the mental health status and help seeking behaviours of migrant workers in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, and to compare them with permanent urban and rural dwellers. A self-completion questionnaire including items relating to sociodemographics, health and lifestyles and mental health, was completed by 4453 migrant workers and 1957 urban workers in Hangzhou city, and by 1909 rural residents in Western Zhejiang Province. The mean age of the migrants was 27 years, (male 29 years, female 25 years). They worked long hours (28% >12 h per day, 81% 6 or 7 days per week) and their living conditions were very basic. On the SF-36 mental health scale migrants had lower scores (52.4) than rural residents (60.4, P |
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