Table 5.

Percentage or Mean Score of Health Status, Smoking, and Alcohol Use Among Day Laborers by Allostatic Load Score

	Low AL (n = 15)	High AL (n = 15)	Total (N = 30)
Health status
Self-rated physical health
Fair/poor	60.0	93.3	76.7
Excellent/very good/good	40.0	6.7	23.3
Self-rated mental health
Fair/poor	46.7	46.7	46.7
Excellent/very good/good	53.3	53.3	53.3
In the past month, the number of days that poor physical or mental health prevented your usual activities, such as self-care, work, or recreation (M; SD)	2.1; 4.6	5.1; 10.4	3.7; 8.1
Smoking
Smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime (Yes)	46.7	60.0	53.3
Frequency of cigarette smokinga
Everyday	42.8	11.1	25.0
Some days	28.6	22.2	25.0
None at all	28.6	66.7	50.0
Number of cigarettes per day
Among everyday smokers (M; SD)	5.3; 4.0	15.0b	7.8; 5.9
Among some days smokers (M; SD)	2.5; 0.7	1.5; 0.7	2.0; 0.8
Alcohol use
In the past month, had at least one alcoholic drink (e.g., beer, wine, liquor) (Yes)	13.3	40.0	26.7
In the past month, on days when drank, number of drinks had; only among those having had at least one alcoholic drink in past month (M; SD)c	6.5; 7.8	3.8; 4.3	4.5; 4.8
In the past month, the number of times had 5 or more drinks on an occasion; only among those having had at least one alcoholic drink in the past month (M; SD)d	0.5; 0.7	2.4; 2.9	1.9; 2.5

Note. AL = allostatic load; low AL = 0 to 1; high AL = 2 to 4.

^aPercents based on 16 total participants who had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime (n = 7 in low AL group, n = 9 in high AL group).

^bOnly one individual in this cell.

^cPercents based on 8 total participants who had at least one alcoholic drink in the past month (n = 2 in low AL group, n = 6 in high AL group).

^dPercents based on 7 total participants who had at least one alcoholic drink in the past month (n = 2 in low AL group, n = 5 in high AL group) as 1 participant was “not sure” for this question.