RESEARCH ARTICLE
Factors Predicting the Holistic Health Status of Cambodian Migrant Workers in Thailand
Manndy Nget1, *, Manyat Ruchiwit1, 2, Eileen Collins3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2022Volume: 15
E-location ID: e187494452210312
Publisher ID: e187494452210312
DOI: 10.2174/18749445-v15-e221026-2022-68
Article History:
Received Date: 26/4/2022Revision Received Date: 23/8/2022
Acceptance Date: 30/8/2022
Electronic publication date: 22/12/2022
Collection year: 2022
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Purpose:
The overall health of Cambodian migrant workers is low. This study aims to describe the holistic-health status (HHS) of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand.
Methods:
Three hundred four participants participated in this cross-sectional survey study. Participants completed the HHS questionnaire developed from the WHO Quality-Of-Life assessment and modified the Migrant Farmworker Stress Inventory. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analyses were used.
Results:
The study identified that social value and adaptation, or how people interacted and adapted to their community, was a significant predictor of HHS (p = .003). Other factors such as financial status, living and working environment, healthcare service and accessibility, and migrant policies were insignificant in the model.
Conclusion:
Social value and adaptation predicted HHS in our sample of Cambodian migrant workers. Other factors such as financial status, the living and working environment, health care services and migrant policies did not contribute to HHS in this sample.