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dc.contributor.authorShi, Y
dc.contributor.authorJi, Y
dc.contributor.authorSun, J
dc.contributor.authorWang, Y
dc.contributor.authorSun, X
dc.contributor.authorLi, C
dc.contributor.authorWang, D
dc.contributor.authorChang, C
dc.contributor.editorAkio Koizumi
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:17:53Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:17:53Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2014-08-28T22:16:38Z
dc.identifier.issn1342-078X
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12199-012-0264-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/46090
dc.description.abstractObjective To analyze and assess health risk awareness of youth migrants in China and the factors that influence it, and to provide evidence for making health promotion interventions and decreasing health risks among Chinese youth migrants. Method This was a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2009 among rural-to-urban migrants aged 15-24 years in Tianjin and Xi'an, China. A total of 1,838 youth migrants were enrolled by the stratified cluster sampling method. An anonymous questionnaire was self-administered to investigate health risk awareness. The t test and v2 test were used to analyze differences between different groups. Logistic regression analysis was used to test the influence of various sociodemographic, living condition, and occupational factors. Results The smoking rate of men (66.8%) was higher than that of women (6.8%; P/0.05), the rate of sexual intercourse in men was higher than in women (56.8 vs 27.7%; P/0.05), and 75.7% of participants had written into medical care systems with 40.4% of them having undergone a physical examination during the last year. Only 438 of the participants (26% of 1,647) were considered to have a satisfactory level of health risk awareness [273 (32.4% of 958) from Tianjin and 165 (28.8% of 689) from Xi'an]. No significant difference was found between the youth migrant populations of the two cities. The percentage of youth migrants with a satisfactory level of health risk awareness who thought they had a good health status was higher than that with an unsatisfactory health risk awareness who thought they had a good health status (P/0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that gender, age, education, reading the newspaper, and occupation significantly influenced on health risk awareness. Conclusion Youth migrants in China have a low health risk awareness. Combined and targeted health education interventions should be promoted to increase their health risk awareness. Keywords Youth, Migrant, Health risk, Health education, Health promotion
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeJapan
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom385
dc.relation.ispartofpageto393
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEnvironmental Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiomedical and clinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.titleLack of health risk awareness in low-income Chinese youth migrants: assessment and associated factors
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSun, Jing


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