Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157–1063, USA.
J Rural Health. 2012 Summer;28(3):277-85. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2011.00401.x. Epub 2011 Dec 15.
Latino farmworkers are a vulnerable population who confront multiple threats to their mental health. Informed by the stress-process model of psychiatric disorder, the goal of this paper is to determine primary and context-specific stressors of poor mental health among Latino farmworkers.
Structured interview data were obtained from farmworkers (N = 69) in 6 counties in eastern and western North Carolina.
Results indicated that a substantial number of farmworkers have poor mental health, as indicated by elevated depressive symptoms (52.2%) and anxiety (16.4%). Results also indicated that each mental health outcome had different predictors.
Addressing the mental health issues of farmworkers requires a comprehensive, multifaceted approach.
拉丁裔农场工人是一个弱势群体,他们面临着多种心理健康威胁。本研究以精神障碍的应激过程模型为指导,旨在确定拉丁裔农场工人心理健康状况不佳的主要和特定情境压力源。
在北卡罗来纳州东部和西部的 6 个县,对农场工人(N=69)进行了结构化访谈。
结果表明,相当数量的农场工人心理健康状况不佳,表现为抑郁症状(52.2%)和焦虑(16.4%)升高。结果还表明,每种心理健康结果都有不同的预测因素。
解决农场工人的心理健康问题需要采取全面、多方面的方法。