Objective To investigate the quality of life and its influencing factors among female migrant workers and to provide basis for making relevant policies.
Methods A total of 354 female migrant workers were selected from enterprises of various sizes and industries in Baoding using stratified and cluster sampling strategy. The WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire was adopted to the investigation. The potential influencing factors included age, education, provenance, and income. EpiData 3.0 was used to establish a database and SPSS 16.0 was used to perform data analysis.
Results The female migrant workers scored an average of 14.92& #177;2.05 in physical health domain, and there was no significant difference in comparison with the norms (P>0.05). The average scores of psychological health domain (13.01& #177;1.75) and environment domain (10.88& #177;2.72) were remarkably lower than the corresponding norms respectively (P< 0.01), and that of social relationship domain (14.88& #177;2.14) was statistically higher (P< 0.01). The results of multinomial regression analysis revealed that influencing factors of quality of life were no off-work days, low monthly income, not working in native province, and low education level.
Conclusion The low quality of life among the female migrant workers is affected by weekly off-work days, monthly income, whether or not working in native province, and education level.
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