Objective To understand the
mental health status between left‐behind
children and
un‐left‐behind
children during
primary school period in Yongchuan district of Chongqing city ,and to provide the theoretical basis for the study of the left‐behind
children children′s mental problems and formulating the strategy and
measures for preventing their psychological problems .
Methods The
Mental Health Rate Scale for
Pupil (M HRSP) was used to evaluate the
mental health condition in 4 987
primary school pu‐pils from 4
primary schools in Yongcuan discrict ,including 3 482
un‐left‐behind
children(69 .82% ) and 1 505 left‐behind
children (30 .18% ) .Results Totally 4 753 effective
questionnaires were taken
back with the effective rate of 95 .31% .The
detection rate of total score deviation in left‐behind
children was 13 .98% ,which was significantly higher than in
un‐left‐behind
children(6 .33% ) . The deviation
detection rate of
learning disabilities in left‐behind
children was 14 .90% ,emotional disorder was 16 .81% ,
character flaw was 12 .36% ,
social adjustment disorder was 13 .91% ,moral defect was 14 .27% ,bad
habits was 15 .61% ,
behavior disorder rate was 16 .53% and the special obstacles was 11 .72% .Compared with
un‐left‐behind
children ,excluding the
character flaw ,
social adjustment and moral defect ,the deviation
detection rate and scores of other 5 items in left‐behind
children were higher than those in
un‐left‐behind
children .The scores of
learning disabilities ,emotional disorder and bad
habits in
male pupils were higher than those in
female pupils with statistical difference(P< 0 .05) .The scores of
learning disabilities ,emotional disorder ,
character flaw and
behavior disorder in the high grade
pupils were higher than those in the low grade
pupils ,the differences were statistically sig‐nificant(P<0 .05) .Conclusion The
mental health level of rural left‐behind
children in Yongchuan district is low ,the problems are more serious compared with
un‐left‐behind
children .In
carrying out the
mental health education work in
primary school pupils ,es‐pecially the
mental health education should be paid
attention to rural left‐behind
children ,moreover the
mental health education should be carried out aiming at different ages and different genders .