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This dissertation, "Meta-analysis on the Psychological Outcomes in China" by Shuo, Xing,, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Background "Left-behind children," defined as the children aged below 18 years old, were taken care of their relatives or other guardians, due to one or both of their parents went for work, have become more and more common after the thirty years reforming and opening up in China. Therefore, government, media and the public pay more attention on this social issue. The objective of this study was to analyze the mental health and psychological outcomes about left-behind children from the view of public health aspect and identify effective intervention to improve the mental condition and psychological healthy of left-behind children according to the results of this meta-analysis. Method Relevant studies were identified in electronic databases, such as PUBMED, CNKI, WanFang Data, Science Direct and Web of science. Keywords included "Left-behind children," "China," "Depression," "Mental health," "Mental disorders," "Mental problems," "Anxiety," "Social anxiety" which can locate the researches to the appropriate studies which are related to the mental health of left-behind children. The selected literatures were evaluated and the evidence was synthesized in a series of meta-analyses. Result I identified 26 literatures to analyze three aspects of left-behind children's mental health. From the statistics analysis, I found that the risk of depression among left-behind children was higher than non left-behind children. However, it had shown that there was no di