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Objective To survey prevalence of behavior problems in children of off-farm workers and effects of family factors on children' s behavior problems.Methods The study was done in the whole 7 schools for off-farm workers' children in Shanghai Baoshan district,including all 3 ～ 6 grades students of primary school and 1 ～3 grades students of junior high school.Totally 4350 students finished survey (95.4％).Achenbach' s child behavior checklist ( CBCL,parent' s version) and general family questionnaire were used.Results ( 1 ) Prevalence of behavior problems in children was 11.2％ ; 12.8％ 12 ～ 16 years children had behavior problems( 14.7％boys and 10.4％ girls) ; 11.4％ of one-child children had behavior problems compared with that of 11.2％ child with siblings children ( x2 =0.038,P ＞ 0.05 ).(2) Total score ( 20.64 ± 17.67 ) and factor scores of thought problems,depressed,hyperactivity,delinquent rule-breaking behavior were higher than those of Chinese norm (P ＜0.05 or P ＜ 0.01 ) among 6 ～ 11 years boy group.Total score ( 17.23 ± 14.73 ) and scores of thought problems,depressed,social problems,hyperactivity,delinquent rule-breaking behavior were higher than those of Chinese norm (P ＜ 0.01 ) among 6 ～ 11 years girl group.Among 12 ～ 16 years boy group,total score (20.44 ± 19.32) and all factor scores of CBCL were higher than those of Chinese norm(P＜0.01 ).Total score ( 17.02 ± 16.72) and scores of immature,delinquent rule-breaking behavior,brutality were higher than those of Chinese norm(P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜0.01 ) among 6 ～ 11 years girl group.(3)Multi-regression analysis showed that poor parent-child relationship was the most important predict factor for higher score of CBCL among all family risk factors (P ＜ 0.05 ).Conclusion Children of the off-farm workers and their families need special mental health care program.
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Objective To investigate psychological health status and its change in short term among persons bit by dogs.Methods Psychological health status was evaluated with patient health questionnaire (PHQ-15) Chinese version for the 613 wounded persons bit by dogs,including 368 males and 245 females with average age of 36 years plus or minus 14 years (standard deviation),meanwhile their wounds were handled routinely at clinics,as well as health education and cognitive psychological intervention were provided for them.Results All of the 613 persons with dog bites had mild or moderate somatic syndrome in their initial visits and 478 of them (78.0%) still presented mild somatic syndrome and only 23 (3.7%)with moderate symptoms four week after dog bites by PHQ-15 scores.One hundred and fifty-two of 613 (24.8%) followed-up at their initial visits had depressive symptoms,which could remain in 61 of them (10.0%) four weeks after bites.Two hundred and eighty-four of them (46.3%) had anxiety symptoms at initial visits,and 258 (42.1%) still had mild and nine (1.5%) had moderate symptoms four weeks after bites.Conclusions Psychological symptoms were popular in wounded persons by dog bites,which can persist for a certain time.PHQ-15 can be used for evaluating their psychological status.