ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2017
The effect of migration on social capital and depression among older adults in China.
Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
40 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
- Thoughts of Death or Self-injury, Non-same-day ART Initiation, and 2-year Incidence of Disengagement from Care Among People Entering HIV Care in Cameroon.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- The effects of subjective and objective socioeconomic status on older adults' mental health in China: a life course-based perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The dual effects of social capital on mental health: a study of structural and cognitive dimensions among the floating older adults in China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Trust and cognitive function: a population-based cross-sectional survey among older adults relocated for poverty alleviation in Shanxi, China.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Article
- How did Chinese older drifters re-establish social networks to mitigate their loneliness in new residential surroundings: a qualitative study in Nanjing, China.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- How migration and its types affect mental health in later life: a cross-sectional study among the older adults in India.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact and mechanism of neighbourhood social capital on mental health: a cross-sectional survey based on the floating elderly population in China.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Psychological distress among parents with emigrant offspring: A mixed-methods study from Changunarayan Municipality, Nepal.PloS one · 2025Article
- Restorative perceptions of migratory elderly: insights for inclusive urban park design in china.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Impact of Post-Retirement Social Relationship Changes on Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Loneliness and Moderating Role of Social Networks.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Association between different patterns of social participation and loneliness among the Chinese older people: is there a local-migrant gap?BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- The determinants of mental health inequalities between Chinese migrants and non-migrants during the Shanghai 2022 lockdown: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Association between social capital and utilization of essential public health services among elderly migrants: a multilevel logistic study based on the 2017 China migrant dynamic survey (CMDS).BMC public health · 2024Article
- How is intergenerational emotional cohesion linked to depression among older internal migrants in China: the mediating roles of loneliness and perceived stress.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Cognitive social capital and geriatric depression: A community-based case-control study among the rural elderly people of Bangladesh.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Social Capital and Mental Wellbeing of Older People Migrating along with Adult Children in Shenzhen, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Migration choices of China's older adults and spatial patterns emerging therefrom (1995-2015).PloS one · 2023Article
- Effects of Health Service Utilization and Informal Social Support on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress among the Internal Migrant Elderly following Children in Weifang, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Relationship between Intergenerational Emotional Support and Subjective Well-Being among Elderly Migrants in China: The Mediating Role of Loneliness and Self-Esteem.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
purposeAn estimated 9 million elderly people accompanied their adult children to urban areas in China, raising concerns about their social capital and mental health following re-location. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of migration on social capital and depression among this population.
methodsMultistage stratified cluster sampling was applied to recruit the migrant and urban elderly in Hangzhou from May to August, 2013. Data were collected from face-to-face interviews by trained college students using a standardized questionnaire. Social capital measurements included cognitive (generalized trust and reciprocity) and structure (support from individual and social contact) aspects. Depression was measured by Geriatric Depression Scale-30 (GDS-30). Chi-square tests and binary logistic regression models were used for analysis.
resultsA total of 1248 migrant elderly and 1322 urban elderly were eligible for analysis. After adjusting for a range of confounder factors, binary logistic regression models revealed that migrant elderly reported significantly lower levels of generalized trust [OR = 1.34, 95% CI (1.10-1.64)], reciprocity [OR = 1.55, 95% CI (1.29-1.87)], support from individual [OR = 1.96, 95% CI (1.61-2.38)] and social contact [OR = 3.27, 95% CI (2.70-3.97)]. In the full adjusted model, migrant elderly were more likely to be mentally unhealthy [OR = 1.85, 95% CI (1.44-2.36)] compared with urban elderly.
conclusionsMigrant elderly suffered from a lower mental health status and social capital than their urban counterparts in the emigrating city. Attention should focus on improving the social capital and mental health of this growing population.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.