Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1176-1182

Stress and Sociocultural Factors Related to Health Status Among US–Mexico Border Farmworkers (Article)

Carvajal S.C.* , Kibor C. , McClelland D.J. , Ingram M. , de Zapien J.G. , Torres E. , Redondo F. , Rodriguez K. , Rubio-Goldsmith R. , Meister J. , Rosales C.
  • a 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, United States
  • b Quintiles, 517 Northcreek Dr., Durham, NC 27707, United States
  • c 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, United States
  • d 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, United States
  • e 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, United States
  • f Campesinos Sin Fronteras, 725 E Main Street, Suite 11, Somerton, AZ 85340, United States
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  • h Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, 631 S. Sixth Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85702-1286, United States
  • i Binational Migration Institute, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona, 1110 E. James Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-0023, United States
  • j 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, United States, Quintiles, 517 Northcreek Dr., Durham, NC 27707, United States, Campesinos Sin Fronteras, 725 E Main Street, Suite 11, Somerton, AZ 85340, United States, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, 631 S. Sixth Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85702-1286, United States, Binational Migration Institute, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona, 1110 E. James Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ 85721-0023, United States
  • k 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, United States

Abstract

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. © 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Author Keywords

Stress and health discrimination sociocultural factors Latinos Farmworkers

Index Keywords

etiology agricultural worker Arizona human epidemiology middle aged statistics and numerical data Stress, Psychological mental stress health status Aged Farmers Mexico ethnology Cross-Sectional Studies Young Adult cross-sectional study Humans psychology male female Socioeconomic Factors risk factor Risk Factors socioeconomics Mexican American adult age Age Factors Mexican Americans
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84912012715&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-013-9853-1&partnerID=40&md5=5f53bda157af4f351265a337337ed2f1
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-013-9853-1
ISSN: 15571912
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English