Multivariate analysis of variance and synthetical evaluation on quality of life in new urban poverty people

  Objective   To investigate and synthetically evaluate the quality of life(QOL)of the new urban poverty people, to provide information for policy decision and health intervention, and to promote the QOL of them.

  Methods   Based on the SF-36 Health Survey, to evaluate the QOL of 103 poor sudjects which were unemployed(the new urban poverty)living in Shenyang city, to compare the new urban poverty group with the poor group and the non-poor group separately applying multivariate analysis of variance and synthetical evaluation.

  Results   There were significant differ ences among groups of QOL, and their subgroups of QOL were all statistically significant.The C value of every group similar to ideal solution was 0.35, 0.04 and 1.00 separately.

  Conclusion   The QOL of the new urban poverty is close to the poor peoples, but lower than that of the non poor people's significantly.Health intervention and health education are suggested to prevent the QOL of the new urban poverty people becoming worse.