Health-Related Quality of Life of Medical Students in a Chinese University: A Cross-Sectional Study

Yanli Qiu, Mingkang Yao, Yiwei Guo, Xiaowei Zhang, Shuoyang Zhang, Yuting Zhang, Yixiang Huang and Lingling Zhang
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Yanli Qiu: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Mingkang Yao: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Yiwei Guo: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Xiaowei Zhang: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Shuoyang Zhang: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Yuting Zhang: Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Yixiang Huang: School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Lingling Zhang: Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 24, 1-13

Abstract: Thus far, there have been no studies adapting the Mandarin 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (the SF-36) questionnaire for assessment of the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of medical students in China. This study aimed to explore the feasibility of that form and analyse its impact factors. The study involved 498 randomly sampled medical students stratified by their academic majors, and general information was collected. The effective response rate was 83.53%. Split-half reliability coefficients and Cronbach’s α coefficients of seven dimensions were more than 0.7 with the exception of the social function (SF) dimension. Spearman’s correlation analysis results were basically in accord with the theoretical construction of the SF-36. The HRQOL of the students was scored from 43.83 (the RE dimension) to 93.34 (the PF dimension). The primary impact factors affecting the HRQOL of medical students included major, sleep quality, degree of physical exercise, post-exercise status, relationship with roommate, and satisfaction with family. These findings suggested that the Mandarin SF-36 was reliable for measuring the HRQOL, that the HRQOL of medical students in a Chinese university was relatively poor, and that its improvement requires concerted efforts.

Keywords: health-related quality of life; SF-36; medical students; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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