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Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China

Objective: The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect of parent migration on intellectual and physical development of early school-aged children in rural China. Design: setting and participants: The present cross-sectional study participants were a subset from a controlled, cluster-randomiz...

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Autores principales: Li, Minmin, Zhu, Ni, Zeng, Lingxia, Wang, Duolao, Dang, Shaonong, Watson, Victoria, Chen, Tao, Hua, Zhongqiu, Li, Zhaoqing, Kang, Yijun, Yan, Hong, Li, Chao
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31947813
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010339
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author Li, Minmin
Zhu, Ni
Zeng, Lingxia
Wang, Duolao
Dang, Shaonong
Watson, Victoria
Chen, Tao
Hua, Zhongqiu
Li, Zhaoqing
Kang, Yijun
Yan, Hong
Li, Chao
author_facet Li, Minmin
Zhu, Ni
Zeng, Lingxia
Wang, Duolao
Dang, Shaonong
Watson, Victoria
Chen, Tao
Hua, Zhongqiu
Li, Zhaoqing
Kang, Yijun
Yan, Hong
Li, Chao
author_sort Li, Minmin
collection PubMed
description Objective: The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect of parent migration on intellectual and physical development of early school-aged children in rural China. Design: setting and participants: The present cross-sectional study participants were a subset from a controlled, cluster-randomized, double-blind trial. From October 2012 to September 2013, the offspring of women who participated in a large trial were examined in the present study. Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC-IV) in which validity and reliability were shown to be satisfactory was used to measure the intellectual function and trained anthropometrists measured weight and height of children using standard procedures. Results: The mean difference of FSIQ scores between non-migration and both-parent migration groups was −3.68 (95%CI: −5.49, −1.87). After adjusting for the confounders, the mean difference of full-scale IQ between non-migration and both-parent migration group was −1.97 (95%CI: −3.92, −0.01), the mean differences of perceptual reasoning index and processing speed index were −2.41 (95%CI: −4.50, −0.31) and −2.39 (95%CI: −4.42, −0.35) between two groups respectively. Conclusion: Our results emphasized the impairment of both-parental migration in intellectual function (FSIQ, PRI, PSI) of children. These findings have important policy implications for the Chinese government to prevent the impairment of left-behind children. Further research is required to clarify the mechanisms by which both-parental migration influence the impairment in intellectual function of children.
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spelling pubmed-69815032020-02-03 Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China Li, Minmin Zhu, Ni Zeng, Lingxia Wang, Duolao Dang, Shaonong Watson, Victoria Chen, Tao Hua, Zhongqiu Li, Zhaoqing Kang, Yijun Yan, Hong Li, Chao Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Objective: The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect of parent migration on intellectual and physical development of early school-aged children in rural China. Design: setting and participants: The present cross-sectional study participants were a subset from a controlled, cluster-randomized, double-blind trial. From October 2012 to September 2013, the offspring of women who participated in a large trial were examined in the present study. Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC-IV) in which validity and reliability were shown to be satisfactory was used to measure the intellectual function and trained anthropometrists measured weight and height of children using standard procedures. Results: The mean difference of FSIQ scores between non-migration and both-parent migration groups was −3.68 (95%CI: −5.49, −1.87). After adjusting for the confounders, the mean difference of full-scale IQ between non-migration and both-parent migration group was −1.97 (95%CI: −3.92, −0.01), the mean differences of perceptual reasoning index and processing speed index were −2.41 (95%CI: −4.50, −0.31) and −2.39 (95%CI: −4.42, −0.35) between two groups respectively. Conclusion: Our results emphasized the impairment of both-parental migration in intellectual function (FSIQ, PRI, PSI) of children. These findings have important policy implications for the Chinese government to prevent the impairment of left-behind children. Further research is required to clarify the mechanisms by which both-parental migration influence the impairment in intellectual function of children. MDPI 2020-01-03 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6981503/ /pubmed/31947813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010339 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Li, Minmin
Zhu, Ni
Zeng, Lingxia
Wang, Duolao
Dang, Shaonong
Watson, Victoria
Chen, Tao
Hua, Zhongqiu
Li, Zhaoqing
Kang, Yijun
Yan, Hong
Li, Chao
Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title_full Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title_fullStr Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title_short Effect of Parental Migration on the Intellectual and Physical Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China
title_sort effect of parental migration on the intellectual and physical development of early school-aged children in rural china
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31947813
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010339
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