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Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parent‒child communication in migrant families is essential to family bonds and the mental health of left-behind children (LBC). Little is known about the different patterns of communication between migrant parents and LBC and associated communication quality and mental health outcomes.

Methods

A sample of 2,183 Chinese children (mean age = 12.95 ± 1.29 years) from Anhui province, including LBC whose parents had both migrated (n = 1,025) and children whose parents had never migrated (never-LBC, n = 1,158), was analyzed. With the LBC sample, latent class analysis was applied to identify the patterns of parent‒child communication. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the associations between the sociodemographic variables and class membership of LBC. Analysis of covariance and chi-square tests were used to compare communication quality and mental health outcome differences among the classes of LBC and between each of the classes and never-LBC.

Results

Five latent classes of communication formed through different media or channels between migrant parents and their LBC were identified. Higher household economic status (OR = 2.81, p < 0.05) was associated with adequate communication. LBC in Class 1, defined by frequent technologically-mediated and face-to-face communication, had a significantly higher quality of communication with their migrant parents (F = 8.92, p < 0.001) and better mental health than those in other latent classes; these children did not have significantly worse mental health outcomes compared to never -LBC.

Conclusions

Facilitating multichannel parent‒child communication is a practical way of reducing mental health inequities between LBC and their peers.

SUBMITTER: Xie QW

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10829291 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.

Xie Qian-Wen QW Chen Roujia R Wang Kexin K Lu Jingjing J Wang Feng F Zhou Xudong X

BMC public health 20240131 1

<h4>Background</h4>Parent‒child communication in migrant families is essential to family bonds and the mental health of left-behind children (LBC). Little is known about the different patterns of communication between migrant parents and LBC and associated communication quality and mental health outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>A sample of 2,183 Chinese children (mean age = 12.95 ± 1.29 years) from Anhui province, including LBC whose parents had both migrated (n = 1,025) and children whose parents had n ...[more]

PMID: 38297309

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Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.

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