Psychological Well-being among the Left-behind Elderly in Ethnic Miao Villages of Guizhou Province

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10.2991/msmi-16.2016.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Left-behind elderly; Psychological well-being; Ethnic Miao

Abstract

[Objective] To describe the psychological well-being and analyze relevant factors among the left-behind elderly in ethnic Miao villages. [Methods] A cross sectional survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire among the 192 left-behind elderly at the age of 60 or older in July 2011 in three Miao minority villages in Shibing county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, P. R. China. The psychological well-being was measured by the social function, mental health, and sensibility function and vitality dimension of the medical outcomes study 36-item short form for health survey (SF-36). [Results] The total score of the psychological well-being was (67.32±1.46). The score of social function, mental health, sensibility function and vitality dimension was (72.59±1.98), (69.88±1.48), (66.15±3.32), and (60.68±1.47), respectively. There was a significantly difference in the psychological well-being among the left-behind elderly with different age (t=-2.393, P=0.018), family yearly income per person (F=2.757, P=0.029), economic resource (F=5.073, P=0.007), walking with difficulty (t=2.145, P=0.037), vision disorder (t=2.067, P=0.040), illness in the last two weeks (t=8.891, P=0.000), chronic disease (t=7.827, P=0.000), and physical examination (t=-2.977, P=0.003). [Conclusion] The status of psychological well-being is bad among the left-behind elderly in Miao minority villages.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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