Zhang Jun-Hua, Yan Li-Xia, Yuan Yang
School of Education, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Big Data of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Apr;97(17):e0597. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000010597.
In recent years, the issue of migrant children with peasant parents working in cities has attracted widespread attention in recent years because of the sheer number and the benefits bundled in China's household. The focus has gradually extended from early education opportunities to all aspects of physical and mental development, especially the social adaptation and mental health of migrant children. The negative impact of environment changes on migrant children' mental health is very worrying for parents and the society. Some studies have found that immigrant children's mental health is significantly lower than their peers, but there are also studies that hold the opposite view. Thus, the mental health status of migrant children is still a controversial issue, which may have a certain relationship with the potential differences in the specific problems of mental health, regions, comparison objects, and researchers. The objective of this protocol is to investigate whether mental health and subdimensions differ between rural-to-urban migrant children and their counterparts living in China and examine study characteristics that might result in differences among studies.
We will search PubMed, Embase, OVID, ERIC, Web of Science, and Chinese databases including CNKI, Chongqing VIP, and Wan Fang data from start to April 2018. Cross-sectional studies with a comparison of migrant children and their counterparts will be included. The primary outcome will be the mean and standard deviation of mental health and its sub-dimensions. Standardized mean difference is used as the main effect value. Subgroup analyses will be carried out by the location of studies and school type of. Sensitivity analyses will be conducted to assess the robustness of the findings. Analyses will be performed with RevMan and Stata software.
This systematic review and meta-analysis will compare the mental health status of rural-to-urban migrant children and their counterparts living in China.
The results of this systematic and meta-analysis will be helpful to get a more reliable understanding of the mental health of rural-to-urban migrant children and the reasons for the controversy on this issue.
近年来,父母进城务工的流动儿童问题因数量庞大以及与中国户籍制度相关的福利捆绑而备受关注。关注焦点已逐渐从早期教育机会扩展到身心发展的各个方面,尤其是流动儿童的社会适应和心理健康。环境变化对流动儿童心理健康的负面影响令家长和社会深感担忧。一些研究发现,流动儿童的心理健康状况明显低于同龄人,但也有研究持相反观点。因此,流动儿童的心理健康状况仍是一个有争议的问题,这可能与心理健康具体问题、地区、比较对象和研究人员的潜在差异存在一定关系。本研究方案的目的是调查农村到城市的流动儿童与其在中国的同龄人在心理健康及其子维度上是否存在差异,并研究可能导致研究结果存在差异的研究特征。
我们将检索PubMed、Embase、OVID、ERIC、Web of Science以及包括中国知网、重庆维普和万方数据在内的中文数据库,检索时间从建库至2018年4月。纳入比较流动儿童及其同龄人的横断面研究。主要结局将是心理健康及其子维度的均值和标准差。标准化均数差值用作主要效应值。将按研究地点和学校类型进行亚组分析。将进行敏感性分析以评估研究结果的稳健性。将使用RevMan和Stata软件进行分析。
本系统评价和荟萃分析将比较农村到城市的流动儿童与其在中国的同龄人的心理健康状况。
本系统评价和荟萃分析的结果将有助于更可靠地了解农村到城市的流动儿童的心理健康状况以及该问题存在争议的原因。