| 2 | Mothers’ health-related quality of life: Its relationship with children’s health-related quality of life and behavior in low-income families显示文摘Objective:To examine the association between mothers’health-related quality of life(HRQOL)and their children’s HRQOL and behavior in low-income families.Methods:Mothers of 278 children aged 6-12 years from low-income families were invited to complete the Child Health Questionnaire Parent Form 50(CHQ-PF50)and the Strength and Dif-ficulties Questionnaire(SDQ)for their children as well as the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey version 2(SF-12v2)and the Patient Health Questionnaire-2(PHQ-2).Multiple linear regressions with mother-child pairs as the unit of analysis were performed to examine the associations between maternal and child variables with adjustment of mother-and child-level confounders.Results:Compared with the general population,low-income mothers had a lower mean SF-12v2 mental component summary score and their children also had lower mean CHQ-PF50 physi-cal and psychosocial summary scores and SDQ total difficulties score.Children of mothers with SF-12v2 scores below the population mean of 50 had significantly worse CHQ-PF50 scores and higher SDQ total difficulties scores.The mother’s PHQ-2 depression status had no association with the child’s CHQ-PF50 scores.Conclusion:Our findings suggest that more attention should be paid to reducing the negative impact of health problems on mothers’daily roles in childcare in low-income families. | Rosa Sze Man Wong Vivian Yawei Guo Patrick Ip Carlos King Ho Wong Esther Yee Tak Yu Colman Siu Cheung Fung Cindy Lo Kuen Lam | 2016 | Family Medicine and Community Health2016，4，4： | 0 |
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