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Meta-Analysis of the Mental Health of Chinese Migrant Workers

  

  1. School of Educational Science and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
  • Received:2011-08-23 Revised:2011-12-22 Online:2012-02-15 Published:2012-02-15

Abstract:

The paper collected research articles of SCL-90 scale on the mental health of migrant workers, and selected 14 for metaanalysis. The results showed that the migrant workers SCL-90 total score is significantly higher than that of the national adult norm(P<0.001); Male migrant workers SCL-90 total score is significantly lower than that of women (P<0.001); Interpersonal sensitivity,depression, anxiety, paranoid ideation were significantly associated with the publication years (P <0.05), anxiety factor was significantly associated with the sample size (P<0.05), other factors were not significantly associated with the publication years,sample size and study quality. The results illustrated that the mental health of migrant workers can not be optimistic, female migrant
workers' psychological problems are more serious than men's; There are some published research effect in studies of mental health of migrant workers, but the sample size, study quality and results of the meta-analysis have little effect.

Key words: migrant worker, SCL-90, mental health, meta-analysis

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