Mental health status compared among rural-to-urban migrant, urban and rural school-age children in Guangdong Province, China

Table 4 Total difficulties score among three groups of school-age children after controlling for socio-demographics

Covariates	Unstandardized coefficients		p
Covariates	β	Std. Error	p
Constant	14.164	1.095	< 0.001***
Groups of children (vs. Urban children)
Migrant children	1.235	0.545	0.024*
Rural children	1.428	0.716	0.046*
Gender (vs. Male)
Female	−1.009	0.347	0.004**
Age (vs.11–13)
14–17	−0.280	0.643	0.664
Insurance status (vs. Uninsured)
Insured	−3.618	0.661	< 0.001***
Father’s education level (vs. Primary education or less)
Secondary education	1.628	0.735	0.027*
University	1.406	1.027	0.171
Mother’s education level (vs. Primary education or less)
Secondary education	−0.982	0.607	0.106
University	1.216	1.062	0.253
Living with parents (vs. Yes)
No	−1.042	0.689	0.131
Communicating with parents (vs. Often)
Seldom	−1.753	0.472	< 0.001***
Monthly household income (RMB) (vs. Less than 3000)
No less than 3000	−2.399	0.472	< 0.001***
Family climate (vs. Satisfactory)
Unsatisfactory	1.002	0.510	0.050
Getting on well with teachers (vs. Yes)
Not	−0.008	0.528	0.988
School achievement (vs. Good)
Poor	0.120	0.404	0.767

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