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Living Arrangements and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents Who Migrate from Rural to Urban Schools: Mediating Effect of Social Support

by 1,2, 3, 4, 5 and 1,*
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Department of Health-Related Social and Behavioral Science, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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School of Humanities and Management, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin 150040, China
3
Medical Laboratory Technology, School of Clinical Medical, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750001, China
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Touying Middle School, Guyuan 756000, China
5
The Seventh Middle School, Guyuan 756000, China
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14(10), 1249; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101249
Received: 10 July 2017 / Revised: 19 September 2017 / Accepted: 12 October 2017 / Published: 19 October 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Housing and Health)
Changes in living arrangements (from living with, or not living with family) may affect the health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to investigate the impact of living arrangement on HRQoL among adolescents migrating from rural to urban schools, and whether social support, in addition to living with a family, had an impact. A cross-sectional survey of 459 school adolescents was carried out in two public schools in Guyuan County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China in 2015. The survey contained the following questionnaires: a self-designed questionnaire, the 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12), and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). Of the 459 adolescents sampled (aged 15.41 ± 1.07 years with range of 13 to 18), 61.7% were living with family, and 38.3% were not living with family. Those students not living with families had lower Mental Component Scale (MCS) scores as well as less social support overall. Those students, who were not living with families, also reported more chronic health problems and more alcohol consumption compared to those students living with families. Social support was a statistically significant mediating factor on the effect of living arrangements on MCS. Our findings demonstrated that those students, who were not living with families, tended to have more health-related quality of life issues, but social support partially mediated the relationship between living arrangements and health. View Full-Text
Keywords: rural-to-urban students; adolescents; living arrangements; quality of life; social support; mediating effect rural-to-urban students; adolescents; living arrangements; quality of life; social support; mediating effect
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Wu, H.; Wu, S.; Wu, H.; Xia, Q.; Li, N. Living Arrangements and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents Who Migrate from Rural to Urban Schools: Mediating Effect of Social Support. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 1249. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101249

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Wu H, Wu S, Wu H, Xia Q, Li N. Living Arrangements and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents Who Migrate from Rural to Urban Schools: Mediating Effect of Social Support. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017; 14(10):1249. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101249

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Wu, Haiyan, Shan Wu, Haibo Wu, Qiming Xia, and Ningxiu Li. 2017. "Living Arrangements and Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents Who Migrate from Rural to Urban Schools: Mediating Effect of Social Support" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14, no. 10: 1249. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101249

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