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01-12-2014 | Original Paper

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

Authors: Scott C. Carvajal, Clara Kibor, Deborah Jean McClelland, Maia Ingram, Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Emma Torres, Floribella Redondo, Kathryn Rodriguez, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Joel Meister, Cecilia Rosales

Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health | Issue 6/2014

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.

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Title: Stress and Sociocultural Factors Related to Health Status Among US–Mexico Border Farmworkers
Authors: Scott C. Carvajal
Clara Kibor
Deborah Jean McClelland
Maia Ingram
Jill Guernsey de Zapien
Emma Torres
Floribella Redondo
Kathryn Rodriguez
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Joel Meister
Cecilia Rosales
Publication date: 01-12-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health / Issue 6/2014
Print ISSN: 1557-1912
Electronic ISSN: 1557-1920
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-013-9853-1

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