TITLE:
Physiques in Migrant Peasant Worker’s Children by Comparison with Rural and Urban Children in Shanghai, China
AUTHORS:
Jin-Kui Lu, Xiao-Jian Yin, Takemasa Watanabe, Yan-Min Lin, Toyoho Tanaka
KEYWORDS:
Migrant Peasant Worker; Children; Physiques; Socioeconomic Factors; Group
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.4 No.1,
February
13,
2014
ABSTRACT: Background: a few studies have
been conducted which describe health status of Migrant Peasant Worker’s
children. However, there are no studies which compare physiques of MPW’s
children with those of rural children and urban children. Also, few studies have
been done on physiques of MPW’s children as it relates to socioeconomic factors
in China. Methods: We examined
across-sectional study of 2457 children from Shanghai and Wuhu city in 2011. First,
we compared the differences of physiques among three groups by ANOVA. Second,
ANCOVA were applied to analyze the associations between the physiques and
socioeconomic factors by taking physiques as dependent variables. The
independent variables included socioeconomic factors such as the parental
occupation, the parental education and family monthly income. Third, ANCOVA
were used to assess differences in physiques among the three groups by
adjusting socioeconomic factors. Results: There were significant differences in all physical indexes, no matter they were
boys and girls (P Conclusions: We find that physiques of MPW’s
children were smaller than those of children of citizen
in Shanghai City, and physiques of MPW’s children were
bigger than those of children of rural resident. There
are strong associations between physiques and socioeconomic factors.