Kilanowski Jill F
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Pediatr Nurs. 2009 May-Jun;35(3):149-53, 188.
The document Healthy People 2010 sets a national health care agenda that includes reducing health disparities and improving quality of life. This study evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children aged 2 to 12 years being raised in two itinerant populations: traveling carnival children (n=33) and migrant farm worker children (n=48), and compared their outcomes to each other and to findings in published literature. The study sample utilized cluster sampling from outdoor amusement companies (carnivals) and agricultural farms who agreed for the researcher to enter their premises and speak with their workers. The PedsQL Generic Core Scales, including a child self-report and parent-proxy, measured HRQOL. HRQOL of the itinerant children did not differ from that of a more geographically stable California sample. The carnival children's mean scores were higher than the migrant farm worker children's scores on 7 out of 12 subscales, but the differences were not statistically significant.
《2010年健康人群》文件设定了一项国家医疗保健议程，其中包括减少健康差距和改善生活质量。本研究评估了在两个流动人群中成长的2至12岁儿童的健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）：流动嘉年华儿童（n = 33）和流动农场工人子女（n = 48），并将他们的结果相互比较，同时与已发表文献中的研究结果进行比较。研究样本采用整群抽样法，从同意研究人员进入其场地并与工人交谈的户外游乐公司（嘉年华）和农场中选取。使用儿科生活质量通用核心量表（包括儿童自评和家长代评）来测量健康相关生活质量。流动儿童的健康相关生活质量与地理位置更稳定的加利福尼亚样本没有差异。在12个分量表中的7个上，嘉年华儿童的平均得分高于流动农场工人子女的得分，但差异无统计学意义。
