中国农村留守儿童心理健康状况的Meta分析

Meta-analysis on the Mental Health of the Left-in-Hometown Children in Rural China

目的探讨中国农村留守儿童与非留守儿童心理健康状况,为在农村留守儿童中进行心理干预及健康教育提供科学依据。方法计算机检索中国生物医学文献数据库（CBM）、万方数据库、维普数据库、中国期刊全文数据库（CNKI）、PubMed及中文生物医学期刊文献数据库（CMCI）,结合文献追溯的方法,收集1999~2008年在国内外公开发表的关于中国农村留守儿童心理健康研究的相关文献,对符合纳入条件的文献进行Meta分析,采用RevMan 4.2软件进行数据统计分析。结果根据设定的纳入与排除标准,选入文献6篇,总样本量2 479例。统计结果显示,留守组儿童在焦虑总分、孤独倾向、恐怖倾向、身体症状、自责倾向等因子得分均高于非留守组。结论农村留守儿童存在较多心理问题,在恐怖、自责、孤独等方面表现尤为突出,心理健康状况较非留守儿童差。

Objective To compare the mental health status between the left-in-hometown children and others in rural China in order to provide scientific basis for psychological intervention and mental health education.Methods A computerized literature search was carried out in several databases such as CBM,Wanfang Data,Vip Information,CNKI,CMCI and PubMed,to collect articles published between 1999 and 2008 concerning the study on the mental health of left-in-hometown children in rural China.The adopted papers were analyzed by Meta-analysis.RevMan 4.2 software was used to process the data.Results Totally 6 references accorded with the research criteria were adopted,among them 2 479 cases were analyzed.Meta-analysis showed that the left-in-hometown children had significantly higher scores than those of others on total anxiety tendency,loneliness tendency,terror tendency,physical symptom,self-blaming tendency.Conclusion There are serious mental health problems among the left-in-hometown children in rural areas comparing with other children,especially in terror,self-blaming and loneliness.The mental health status of left-in-hometown children is poorer than others.