Influence of Social Support on Health-Related Quality of Life in New-Generation Migrant Workers in Eastern China

摘要

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has become an important target in the medical area, including treatment outcome assessment, health economics evaluation, and assessing the effects of health education (1-3). HRQOL has been widely applied in epidemiological studies (4). However, it has rarely been used among migrant workers without specific illnesses. Many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health (5, 6). Poor social networks are associated with worse QOL (7-10). Furthermore, poor social support has been linked to higher mortality from almost every cause of death (11-14).