Pang Mingli, Wang Jieru, Jiang Xiaoxu, Li Hexian, Li Shixue, Kong Fanlei
Centre for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
NHC Key Lab of Health Economics and Policy Research, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Children (Basel). 2022 Sep 1;9(9):1333. doi: 10.3390/children9091333.
As urbanization is growing quickly in China, many migrant elderly following children (MEFC) migrate to big cities to care for their grandchildren (grandchildren of MEFC=GMEFC). This study aimed to explore the effects of the living environment, health statuses of family members, and MEFC's attitude regarding the care of their children (children of MEFC=CMEFC) for their GMEFC on GMEFC's health statuses in Weifang, China. Multistage cluster random sampling was used to select the participants, and 613 MEFC were included in total. Descriptive analysis, univariate analysis and binary logistic regression were used to investigate the association between the related variables and GMEFC's health statuses. It was found that 74.9% of the GMEFC had excellent health statuses. The GMEFC who had siblings, the CMEFC with excellent health statuses, and the MEFC with excellent health statuses were more likely to have excellent health statuses. Moreover, the GMEFC who were female, elevators occasionally malfunctioned, the MEFC who were dissatisfied with the CMEFC's time spent on caring, and the MEFC who did not understand or forgive the CMEFC's limited time on caring were less likely to have GMEFC with excellent health statuses. The results indicated that a better living environment, better health statuses of family members, and a positive attitude of the MEFC regarding the care of CMEFC for GMEFC would result in a better health status of GMEFC.
在中国城市化快速发展的背景下，许多随迁老人前往大城市照顾孙辈（随迁老人的孙辈=GMEFC）。本研究旨在探讨居住环境、家庭成员健康状况以及随迁老人对其子女（随迁老人的子女=CMEFC）照顾GMEFC的态度对中国潍坊地区GMEFC健康状况的影响。采用多阶段整群随机抽样选取研究对象，共纳入613名随迁老人。运用描述性分析、单因素分析和二元logistic回归分析相关变量与GMEFC健康状况之间的关联。结果发现，74.9%的GMEFC健康状况良好。有兄弟姐妹的GMEFC、健康状况良好的CMEFC以及健康状况良好的随迁老人，其GMEFC更有可能健康状况良好。此外，女性GMEFC、电梯偶尔出现故障、对CMEFC照顾时间不满意的随迁老人以及不理解或不原谅CMEFC照顾时间有限的随迁老人，其GMEFC健康状况良好的可能性较小。结果表明，更好的居住环境、家庭成员更好的健康状况以及随迁老人对CMEFC照顾GMEFC的积极态度，会使GMEFC的健康状况更好。
