Stress and sociocultural factors related to health status among US-Mexico border farmworkers

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• Personal Author:
  Carvajal SC ; de Zapien JG ; Ingram M ; Kibor C ; McClelland DJ ; Meister J ; Redondo F ; Rodriguez K ; Rosales C ; Rubio-Goldsmith R ; Torres E
• Description:
  This study examines factors relating to farmworkers' health status from sociocultural factors, including stress embedded within their work and community contexts. A cross-sectional household survey of farmworkers (N = 299) included social-demographics, immigration status descriptors, and a social-ecologically grounded, community-responsive, stress assessment. Outcomes included three standard US national surveillance measures of poor mental, physical, and self-rated health (SRH). Logistic regression models showed that higher levels of stress were significantly associated (Ps < .001) with increased risk for poor mental health and poor physical health considering all variables. Stress was not associated with SRH. Regarding two of the three outcomes, mental health and physical health, stress added explanatory power as expected. For poor SRH, a known marker for mortality risk and quite high in the sample at 38%, only age was significantly associated. Clinical and systems-level health promotion strategies may be required to mitigate these stressors in border-residing farmworkers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Agriculture Community Health Services Demography Emigration And Immigration Family Farmers Healthcare Disparities Men Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Women

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• Keywords:
  Age Factors Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Community Based Community Health Demographic-characteristics Discrimination Families Farm Workers Health-surveys Health Disparities Human Immigrant Workers Mental-stress Psychological-effects Psychological-stress Psychophysiology Racial-factors Socioeconomics Sociological-factors Stress Surveillance

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• ISSN:
  1557-1912
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048704
• Citation:
  J Immigr Minor Health 2014 Dec; 16(6):1176-1182
• Contact Point Address:
  S. C. Carvajal, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 1295 N. Martin Avenue, Drachman Hall A254, P.O. Box 245163, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
• Email:
  scott.carvajal@arizona.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060801
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
• End Date:
  20080731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:616aae9687d575d92cde066b5273014440b7aff9c483bcffe7acf18beea6dffdac6f530d3818252217dbf12e562383c7e698f2cb31b251e9fa1b7a94275e95cf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203395/cdc_203395_DS1.pdf
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