Health-Related Lifestyle Behaviors among Male and Female Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

PLoS One

Donghao Xu¹  Yumiao Wu²  Xiuping Xia³  Tianying Wang⁴  Fang He⁵  Yimin Tu⁶  Yao Liu⁷  Wei Dai⁷  Jian Gong⁷  Hua Yang⁷  Yao Shen⁷  Tianhao Wang⁷  Shanzhu Zhu⁷  Jie Gu⁷  Jing Zhou⁷  Zhigang Pan⁷  Lei Shen⁸ 

[1] Department of General Practice, Caohejing Community Health Service center, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Changzheng Community Health Service Center, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Huangdu Community Health Service Center, Anting Town, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Sanlin Community Health Service Center, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Xinjing Community Health Service Center, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Yinhang Community Health Service Center, Shanghai, China;Department of General Practice, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Department of Preventive Medicine, Huaxin Community Health Service center, Shanghai, China

关键词: Labor mobility;    Alcohol consumption;    Mental health and psychiatry;    Employment;    Behavioral and social aspects of health;    Salaries;    Blood pressure;    Sleep;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.pone.0117946

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

【 摘 要 】

Background Lifestyle behaviors significantly impact health, yet remain poorly defined in Chinese rural-to-urban migrants. Methods In a cross-sectional study of health-related behaviors of 5484 rural-to-urban migrants who had worked in Shanghai for at least six months, we assessed the contribution of demographics and physical and mental health to lifestyle behaviors in male and female participants by multiple stepwise cumulative odds logistic regression. Results Respondents were 51.3% male. 9.9% exhibited abnormal blood pressure; 27.0% were overweight or obese; 11.2% reported abnormal mental health; 36.9% reported healthy lifestyle. Multiple stepwise cumulative odds logistic regression indicated that men working in manufacturing reported less unhealthy lifestyle than those in hospitality (cumulative odds ratio (COR) = 1.806, 95%CI 1.275–2.559) or recreation/leisure (COR = 3.248, 95%CI 2.379–4.435); and women working in manufacturing and construction reported less unhealthy lifestyle than those in all other sectors. Unhealthy lifestyle was associated with small workplaces for men (COR = 1.422, 95%CI 1.154–1.752), working more than 8 or 11 hours per day for women and men, respectively, and earning over 3500 RMB in women (COR = 1.618, 95%CI 1.137–2.303). Single women and women who had previously resided in three or more cities were more likely to report unhealthy lifestyle (COR = 2.023, 95%CI 1.664–2.461, and COR = 1.311, 95%CI 1.072–1.602, respectively). Abnormal mental status was also correlated with unhealthy lifestyle in men (COR = 3.105, 95%CI 2.454–3.930) and women (COR = 2.566, 95%CI 2.024–3.252). Conclusions There were different risk factors of unhealthy lifestyle score in male and female rural-to-urban migrants, especially in number of cities experienced, salary, marital status, work place scale. Several demographic groups: employment sectors (e.g. hospitality and recreation/leisure), working conditions (e.g. long hours) and abnormal mental status were associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors in Chinese rural-to-urban migrants, and health interventions should be targeted to these groups.

【 授权许可】

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