TITLE:
Comparison and Influencing Factors of Nutritional Status in Rural Left-Behind and Urban Migrant Middle School Students
AUTHORS:
Yongjing Song, Yu Lou, Jiali Xu, Fan Su, Chaoliang Mao, Maolin Yang, Yuqiang Li, Jinkui Lu
KEYWORDS:
Left-Behind Children, Migrant Children, Nutritional Status, Regression Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.2,
February
5,
2021
ABSTRACT: With the development of social economy, people’s
living standard has been improved. Malnutrition among Chinese adolescents is
gradually decreasing, but is still widespread in some rural areas, especially
among left-behind adolescents. We compared the nutritional status of rural
left-behind and urban migrant middle school students and analysed its
influencing factors to provide a scientific basis for the formulation of government
policies for health promotion. Stratified cluster random sampling was employed.
Participants were 513 urban migrants and 440 rural left-behind middle school
students aged 12-15 years. The underweight detection rates of the rural
left-behind group (boys: 18.6%, girls: 15.4%) were substantially higher than
that of the urban migrant group (boys: 9.2%, girls: 3.7%), and the
overweight/obesity detection rates of the urban migrant group (boys: 40.1%,
girls: 21.2%) were substantially higher than that of the rural left-behind
group (boys: 10.2%, girls: 6.6%). The prevalence of underweight among rural
left-behind middle school students in Shangrao was correlated with parents’
education level and monthly household income, and the prevalence of
overweight/obesity among urban migrant middle school students in Shanghai was
correlated with physical activity.