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[Study on the quality of life among floating population in a community of Shanghai]
Yan-ji Yang1, Shu-mei Wang, Zhen-wei Wang
1Department of Children and Adolescents Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Objective:
To discover the current condition of the floating population's quality of life (QOL) in a community of Shanghai and find out the possible influencing factors.
Methods:
480 people identified as 'floating', were chosen by systematic sampling method, whose QOL was evaluated by WHOQOL-BREF (Chinese Version). A multiple linear regression model was used to analyze the relationship between the factors and the scores of the four domains.
Results:
The physical and psychological scores of the floating population were 14.09 +/- 2.09 and 11.28 +/- 2.18 which were lower than the average levels of the Chinese population which were 15.8 +/- 2.9 and 14.3 +/- 2.5. Women showed higher score in the social relationship domain than men (P = 0.017). With the increase of age, the scores of physical and psychological domain were descending (P(Phys.) = 0.030, P(Phych.) = 0.023). The score in every domain was rising when the appetite was better or the family conflicts had a lighter impact on life (P < 0.01).
Conclusion:
The QOL of the young females was better than other groups. Considering the whole QOL of the floating population, their physical and psychological demands should be highly concerned.
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