Background
Method
Research context
Study design
Study site and participants
Participant recruitment and questionnaire administration
Data collection
Measurement
Statistical analysis
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Results
Demographics
< 3 point n(%) | ≥3 point n(%) | Total n(%) | χ2 | P value | ||
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Gender | Male | 4302(77.8) | 1225(72.1) | 5527(76.4) | 23.52 | < 0.001 |
Female | 1227(22.2) | 474(27.9) | 1701(23.5) | |||
No data | 2(0.1) | 0 | 2(0.1) | |||
Age | < 30 | 112(2.0) | 16(0.9) | 128(1.8) | 207.08 | < 0.001 |
30–49 | 412(7.4) | 62(3.6) | 474(6.6) | |||
50–69 | 2736(49.5) | 591(34.8) | 3327(46.0) | |||
≥70 | 2271(41.1) | 1030(60.6) | 3301(45.7) | |||
Education | Primary school or below | 4304(77.8) | 1531(90.1) | 5835(80.7) | 126.23 | < 0.001 |
Junior high school | 1015(18.4) | 144(8.5) | 1159(16.0) | |||
Senior high school | 155(2.8) | 18(1.1) | 173(2.4) | |||
College and above | 50(0.9) | 5(0.3) | 55(0.8) | |||
No data | 7(0.1) | 1(0.1) | 8(0.1) | |||
Employment | Full-time | 964(17.4) | 75(4.4) | 1039(14.4) | 317.89 | < 0.001 |
Part-time | 336(6.1) | 36(2.1) | 372(5.1) | |||
Retired | 603(10.9) | 100(5.9) | 703(9.7) | |||
Unemployed | 3606(65.2) | 1484(87.3) | 5090(70.4) | |||
No data | 22(0.4) | 4(0.2) | 26(0.4) | |||
Occupation | Farmers | 3741(67.6) | 1155(68.0) | 4896(67.7) | 69.49 | < 0.001 |
Factory workers | 302(5.5) | 37(2.2) | 339(4.7) | |||
Business men | 156(2.8) | 12(0.7) | 168(2.3) | |||
Others | 1320(23.8) | 489(28.7) | 1809(25.0) | |||
No data | 12(0.2) | 6(0.4) | 18(0.2) |
QOL score of participants with different psychological health status
< 3 point(\( \overline{x} \) ±s) | ≥3 point(\( \overline{x} \) ±s) | Total(\( \overline{x} \) ±s) | t | P value | |
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Physical | 21.2 ± 2.5 | 18.7 ± 2.7 | 20.6 ± 2.7 | 36.013 | < 0.001 |
Psychological | 17.7 ± 2.1 | 15.4 ± 2.5 | 17.2 ± 2.4 | 38.213 | < 0.001 |
Social relationships | 10.0 ± 1.5 | 8.6 ± 1.8 | 9.7 ± 1.7 | 31.980 | < 0.001 |
Environment | 25.3 ± 3.7 | 22.2 ± 4.0 | 24.6 ± 4.0 | 30.001 | < 0.001 |
Logistic regression analysis of GHQ12 score
Variables | Univariate analyses | Multivariate analyses | ||||
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aOR
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95%CI
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p
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aOR
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95%CI
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p
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Gender | ||||||
female | reference | |||||
male | 0.74 | 0.65–0.83 | < 0.001 | 1.31 | 1.13–1.52 | < 0.001 |
Age | ||||||
< 30 | reference | |||||
30–49 | 0.32 | 0.19–0.54 | < 0.001 | 0.90 | 0.49–1.65 | 0.732 |
50–69 | 0.33 | 0.25–0.44 | < 0.001 | 0.77 | 0.56–1.08 | 0.131 |
≥70 | 0.48 | 0.42–0.54 | < 0.001 | 0.69 | 0.60–0.79 | < 0.001 |
Education | ||||||
primary school or below | reference | |||||
junior high school | 2.51 | 2.09–3.03 | < 0.001 | – | – | – |
senior high school | 3.06 | 1.93–5.18 | 0.5342 | – | – | – |
college and up | 3.56 | 1.56–10.25 | 0.1871 | – | – | – |
Employment | ||||||
unemployment | reference | |||||
full-time | 0.47 | 0.34–0.64 | < 0.001 | 0.36 | 0.27–0.48 | < 0.001 |
part-time | 0.65 | 0.43–0.97 | 0.03 | 0.39 | 0.26–0.57 | < 0.001 |
retired | 2.48 | 1.99–3.09 | < 0.001 | 0.38 | 0.29–0.50 | < 0.001 |
Profession | ||||||
peasants | reference | |||||
factory workers | 0.40 | 0.28–0.56 | < 0.001 | 0.89 | 0.59–1.35 | 0.587 |
businessmen | 0.25 | 0.14–0.45 | < 0.001 | 0.85 | 0.44–1.65 | 0.624 |
othersa | 1.20 | 1.06-1.36 | 0.004 | 1.35 | 1.16–1.57 | < 0.001 |
Quality of life | ||||||
physical health | 0.68 | 0.66–0.69 | < 0.001 | 0.83 | 0.80–0.85 | < 0.001 |
phycological health | 0.60 | 0.58–0.62 | < 0.001 | 0.74 | 0.71–0.77 | < 0.001 |
social relationship | 0.58 | 0.56–0.60 | < 0.001 | 0.85 | 0.80–0.89 | < 0.001 |
environment | 0.80 | 0.78–0.81 | < 0.001 | 0.97 | 0.95–0.99 | 0.009 |