TY  - EJOU
AU  - Jiang, Qijie 
AU  - Zhang, Chi 
AU  - Duan, Xiaoli 
AU  - Pei, Siyi 

TI  - A Social Intervention Approach to Rehabilitate the Health Psychology of Left-behind Children with Psychological Problems in Healthcare Settings
T2  - International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

PY  - 2022
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
SN  - 2049-8543

AB  - <b>Background:</b> Left-behind children are more inclined to generate psychological problems relative to non-left-behind children, thus how to rehabilitate their health psychology and promote the psychological health development of this special disadvantaged group in healthcare settings should be paid more attention to. <b>Objective:</b> This paper attempts to present a social intervention approach and explore its impact on the rehabilitation of rural left-behind children’s psychological problems in healthcare settings. <b>Methods:</b> This study firstly designed a social intervention program based on the health psychology theory and the generation causes of left-behind children’s psychological problems, and then three groups were applied to test the effectiveness of the program with comparison analysis. <b>Results:</b> Compared with the control left-behind children (group 2), the left-behind children in the experimental group 1 had positive changes in learning anxiety, physical symptoms, anxiety about people, loneliness tendency, self-blame tendency, allergy tendency, terror tendency and impulse tendency. And their mental health can be rehabilitated to the level of non-left-behind children in group 3. <b>Conclusion:</b> This study revealed positive effects of specially designed social intervention program on the rehabilitation of left-behind children’s psychological problems in healthcare settings. The results have both theoretical and practical implications.
KW  - Health psychology; left-behind children; rehabilitation; healthcare settings; experiment

DO  - 10.32604/ijmhp.2022.017787