ArticleChildren and youth services review2020
The impacts of parent-child communication on left-behind children's mental health and suicidal ideation: A cross sectional study in Anhui.
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- Parental education and youth suicidal behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Depression in left-behind children: a network analysis and chained mediation of attachment and emotion regulation.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of parental migration on left-behind children's tooth health in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Multifaceted determinants of depressive symptoms in children migrating back from urban to rural areas: An ecological systems theory approach.Journal of migration and health · 2025Article
- Association of the previous experience of maternal migration absence with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in their school-aged children: a cross-sectional study in Anhui, China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A systematic review of the association between parent-child communication and adolescent mental health.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Association Between Parental Absence and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Evidence From a National Household Longitudinal Survey.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Parent-Offspring Communication and the School Adaptation of Leftover Children in Overseas Countries: The Mediating Role of Companionship and the Moderating Role of a Sense of Safety.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The impact of parental migration on left-behind children's vision health in rural China.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Long-term effects of left-behind experience on adult depression: Social trust as mediating factor.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Correlates of suicidal ideation in rural Chinese junior high school left-behind children: A socioecological resilience framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Mother's and Father's Migrating in China: Differing Relations to Mental Health and Risk Behaviors Among Left-Behind Children.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Suicidality and Its Associated Factors Among Students in Rural China During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study of Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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This study aimed to investigate the impact of previous maternal migration experiences on left-behind children's (LBC) mental health status and suicidal ideation, and the possible mediating role of parent-child communication. A cross-sectional study among rural children was conducted in Anhui, China, in 2018. LBC who self-reported that (a) their fathers were migrants and (b) they were living with their mothers at the time of the survey were included in this study. The participants were then divided into two subgroups by previous maternal migration experience. Previous maternal migration was associated with worse mental health and a higher prevalence of suicidal ideation among LBC compared with their peers. Healthy communication between children and parents fully mediates the adverse effects caused by previous maternal migration experiences on mental health among LBC, and communication with mother partially mediates the association with suicidal ideation. Communication classes for returning parents offered jointly by governments and schools could be an effective way to mitigate the impacts of maternal migration on child mental health and should be studied.
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