Self-perception of health in Mexican rural migrant agricultural workers.

Abstract

Self-perception of health is conceived based on a person's current circumstances. The objective of this research was to describe the self-perception of health in Mexican migrant agricultural laborers. It is a qualitative phenomenological study with convenience sampling until data saturation, with nine interviews with rural migrant agricultural laborers. Content analysis was used for data analysis; the results gave rise to four subcategories: "perceived well-being," "self-care," "compromising integrity," and "unperceived malnutrition," and a central category, "self-perception of health." It is concluded that selfperception of health is a complex and contradictory phenomenon in agricultural laborers, due to the positive and negative aspects they experience.