Study On Psychological Health Status And Reflections Of Migrants From Three Gorges Reservoir In Chongqing

Objective To investigate psychological health status and analyze reflections of migrants which are from Three Gorges Reservoir of ChongQing, also provide scientific evidence for resolving mental disorder and social problem existing in migrants.Method The cluster randomized sampling method was used to select research objects which were entered in this study, including 319 latter settled adults migrants and 327 local residents; 502 adults migrants moving to other county in ChongQing City and SiChuan province, 629 local residents. Objects were interviewed with standard questionnaires, such as Residents General Status Table, Symptom Check-list 90 (SCL - 90) and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). These original data were input Epidata recording-system, and analyzed by SPSS statistic analysis software and LISREL8.70 for Windows. we could evaluate psychological status of migrants fr??hree Gorges Reservoir in ChongQing and find out influencing factors. Results 1. The reliability and validity analysis of SCL -90 Scale indicated that Cronbach'sαcoefficient and Split-half coefficient both were higher than 0.7, the correlation coefficient between subscale and scale was from 0.745 to 0.917, the confirmatory factor analysis showed several goodness of fit indices in fitting model:χ~2/df>5,GFI<0.9,RMSEA<0.08,SRMR < 0.1,IFI,CFI,NNFI > 0.90,the t-value difference was significant in average score of 10 subscales and total score respectively between the positive symptom of psychological disorder population and psychological well-being population; 2. The positive symptom detection rate of psychological disorder in latter settled migrants(χ~2=4.104,p=0.043) and migrants moving to other counties(χ~2=17.143,p<0.001) was higher than control group respectively, the detection rate of migrants moving to other counties was also higher than the control, but the difference between two kinds of resettlement model was not significant(χ~2=1.797,p=0.180). (1)In latter settlement migrants, the total scale-score was higher than local residents in young people;Female were more easily to have negative emotion;Average score of 4 subscales and total scale-score were higher than local residents in people with education background of grade school;Average score of 8 subscales and total scale-score were higher than local residents in non-farmer group;The mental health status was poor in population with little income;The difference of acquiring social support was not significant between migrants and local residents(t=0.052, p=0.959), and also no-significance in living place and hometown(t=0.472,p=0.637);The variables fitting to multiple regression equation were economics and gender; (2) The psychological condition of migrants moving to other counties or province was so poor. The total scale-score of young and old people were both higher than control group respectively;Female and Male were all in risk having psychological problem;Average score of 10 subscales and total scale-score were higher than local residents in people with education background of grade school;The mental health status of farmer was generally poorer than control group;Member of little income family were all enduring heavy burden in mental health;The difference of acquiring social support was significant between migrants and local resident(st=5.723,p<0.001), and also significance in living place and hometown(t=10.674,p<0.001);The method of multiple regression analysis indicated that economics, subjective support and gender ware important factors influencing psychological status of migrants.Conclusions 1.The internality reliability, content validity and division validity were better in migrants, but structure validity was not very well. This was consistent with some study [1,2] at home and abroad; 2.From the quantitative analysis of original data, we found that of latter settled migrant, the young people, female group, population of lower educational level and less economic income staffs were high-risk population which were closely concerned mental health status; However, the general mental status was not so well and acquiring social support was not far enough. It suggests that administration department in charge migrants should also concern their mental and emotional need except providing favorable employment position and living condition, and finally made migrants adapt to local environment, then realized the aim of"social stability and economic prosperity"...