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Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China
BACKGROUND: The increasing population of marriage-based migrant women is disproportionally affected by AIDS/STDs in China, and social support plays a critical role. This study aims to describe the social support level received by married migrant women in rural areas in Shandong province in compariso...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26603036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2508-5 |
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author | Ma, Wenkang Kang, Dianmin Song, Yapei Wei, Chongyi Marley, Gifty Ma, Wei |
author_facet | Ma, Wenkang Kang, Dianmin Song, Yapei Wei, Chongyi Marley, Gifty Ma, Wei |
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description | BACKGROUND: The increasing population of marriage-based migrant women is disproportionally affected by AIDS/STDs in China, and social support plays a critical role. This study aims to describe the social support level received by married migrant women in rural areas in Shandong province in comparison to non-migrant local women, identifies the relevant factors of this social support condition among married migrant women, and observes the correlation between social support level and infection status of AIDS and STDs among this group. METHODS: A probability-based sample of 1,076 migrant and 1,195 local women were included in the study. A pre-tested field questionnaire was administered to participants through a direct face-to-face interview. Questionnaire contained questions on socio-demographic information, AIDS and STDs prevalence information and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) which measures objective support, subjective support, and utilization of social support. RESULTS: Compared to local women, married migrant women had lower levels of social support in most dimensions. Multi-variable analysis revealed that relationship with spouse, family average income, number of children, education, engagement and claimed reasons of moving have various correlations with one or all dimensions of social support scores. Higher social support is also related to awareness of infection status of HIV and STDs among this group. CONCLUSION: Our findings provide further evidence that married migrant women have lower levels of social support which may be related to some social characteristics and their awareness status of AIDS and STDs infection status and that targeted interventions need to be developed for this population. |
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spelling | pubmed-46587592015-11-26 Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China Ma, Wenkang Kang, Dianmin Song, Yapei Wei, Chongyi Marley, Gifty Ma, Wei BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The increasing population of marriage-based migrant women is disproportionally affected by AIDS/STDs in China, and social support plays a critical role. This study aims to describe the social support level received by married migrant women in rural areas in Shandong province in comparison to non-migrant local women, identifies the relevant factors of this social support condition among married migrant women, and observes the correlation between social support level and infection status of AIDS and STDs among this group. METHODS: A probability-based sample of 1,076 migrant and 1,195 local women were included in the study. A pre-tested field questionnaire was administered to participants through a direct face-to-face interview. Questionnaire contained questions on socio-demographic information, AIDS and STDs prevalence information and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) which measures objective support, subjective support, and utilization of social support. RESULTS: Compared to local women, married migrant women had lower levels of social support in most dimensions. Multi-variable analysis revealed that relationship with spouse, family average income, number of children, education, engagement and claimed reasons of moving have various correlations with one or all dimensions of social support scores. Higher social support is also related to awareness of infection status of HIV and STDs among this group. CONCLUSION: Our findings provide further evidence that married migrant women have lower levels of social support which may be related to some social characteristics and their awareness status of AIDS and STDs infection status and that targeted interventions need to be developed for this population. BioMed Central 2015-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4658759/ /pubmed/26603036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2508-5 Text en © Ma et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ma, Wenkang Kang, Dianmin Song, Yapei Wei, Chongyi Marley, Gifty Ma, Wei Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title | Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title_full | Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title_fullStr | Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title_short | Social support and HIV/STDs infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in Shandong Province, China |
title_sort | social support and hiv/stds infections among a probability-based sample of rural married migrant women in shandong province, china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26603036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2508-5 |
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