Citation

Fernández-Esquer ME, Gallardo KR, Diamond PM. J. Immigr. Minor. Health 2019; 21(2): 364-371.

Affiliation

Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health, 7000 Fannin St., Suite 2518, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10903-018-0752-3

PMID

29767403

Abstract

Latino day laborers are a socially and economically marginalized immigrant population with a high risk of occupational injury. These workers confront multiple social, psychological, and environmental hardships that increase their risk for adverse health outcomes. How these stressors interact and influence work-related injuries in this population remains unclear. We conducted an exploratory study with 327 Latino day laborers who completed a community survey. We developed a structural equation model, using cross-sectional data to explore the relationships among socioeconomic status, situational and immigration stress, depression, work risk exposure, and occupational injury. The model revealed a statistically significant mediated effect from situational stress to injury through work risk exposure as well as a significant mediated effect from immigration stress through depression to injury. These initial findings suggest that situational and immigration-related stress have a detrimental impact on Latino day laborers' mental health and workplace safety and, ultimately, increase their risk of occupational injury.

Language: en

Keywords

Day laborers; Immigration; Latino workers; Stress; Workplace injury