Cattle Feedyard Worker Health Study

Project Overview

The Cattle Feedyard Worker Health Study is a longitudinal descriptive study to how stress is associated with physical health, psychological health and social well-being outcomes across time and industry-specific seasons among cattle feedyard workers in the Central States region. This study includes the use of multiple methods including health assessments conducted through onsite health fairs at cattle feedyard operations, one-on-one interviews with workers and ethnographic field work. This study may help us to understand more about health, stress, and workers' lives.

The Cattle Feedyard Worker Health Study has four primary aims:

Aim 1

Examine the interrelations among stress, occupational injuries, physical and psychosocial health, and social well-being outcomes.

Aim 2

Investigate whether risk and protective factors mediate or moderate the links among stress, occupational injuries, physical and psychosocial health, and social well-being outcomes. 

Aim 3

Explore whether changes in severe, perceived, and physiological stress across time are linked to changes in occupational injuries, physical and psychosocial health, and social well-being outcomes.

Aim 4

Develop, pilot, and disseminate evidence-based health and safety materials for cattle feedyard workers, industry, and partners.