TY - JOUR
T1 - Stress and Sociocultural Factors Related to Health Status Among US–Mexico Border Farmworkers
AU - Carvajal, Scott C.
AU - Kibor, Clara
AU - McClelland, Deborah Jean
AU - Ingram, Maia
AU - de Zapien, Jill Guernsey
AU - Torres, Emma
AU - Redondo, Floribella
AU - Rodriguez, Kathryn
AU - Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel
AU - Meister, Joel
AU - Rosales, Cecilia
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This project was funded by a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (R21OH008747) to the University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH). This was a community-based project whose institutional partners were the University of Arizona (MEZCOPH and the Binational Migration Institute, Department of Mexican American Studies), Campesinos Sin Fronteras, and Derechos Humanos. The authors are grateful to the farmworkers and promotor/promotoras whose participation made this project a success.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/10/30
Y1 - 2014/10/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Discrimination
KW - Farmworkers
KW - Latinos
KW - Sociocultural factors
KW - Stress and health
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U2 - 10.1007/s10903-013-9853-1
DO - 10.1007/s10903-013-9853-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 23813347
AN - SCOPUS:84912012715
SN - 1557-1912
VL - 16
SP - 1176
EP - 1182
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
IS - 6
ER -