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Job demands and pesticide exposure among immigrant Latino farmworkers
- Source :
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 15:252-266
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2010.
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Abstract
- The goal of this study was to understand the potential threat of job stressors to farmworker health. To accomplish this goal we studied pesticide exposure, an issue with immediate and long-term health consequences, and predictions from the Demands-Control model of occupational stress. Longitudinal, self-report data and urine samples were collected at monthly intervals from a cohort of Latino farmworkers (N = 287) during the 2007 agricultural season. The primary hypothesis was that greater exposure to psychological demands, physical exertion, and hazardous work conditions are associated with greater odds of detecting dialkylphosphate (DAP) urinary pesticide metabolites, biomarkers indicating exposure to pesticides. Contrary to this hypothesis, results indicated that none of the elements of the Demands-Control model were independently associated with detection of DAP urinary pesticide metabolites. However, analyses produced several interaction effects, including evidence that high levels of control may buffer the effects of physical job demands on detection of DAP urinary pesticide metabolites.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
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Immigration
Emigrants and Immigrants
Article
Latinos latinas
Occupational Exposure
Environmental health
North Carolina
Humans
Medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Pesticides
Applied Psychology
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Health consequences
business.industry
Stressor
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Agriculture
Hispanic or Latino
Pesticide
Cohort
Female
Occupational stress
Occupational exposure
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391307 and 10768998
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b343b6b24ce0a08b157d379c5430cdbf