The Effect of Participatory Heat Education on Agricultural Worker Knowledge.
J Agromedicine
; 28(2): 187-198, 2023 04.
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| ID: mdl-35345983
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Farmworkers disproportionately experience preventable adverse health effects from heat exposure. We sought to evaluate the effect of participatory heat education on farmworker knowledge.METHODS:
We conducted a parallel, comparison group intervention study to investigate the effectiveness of a Spanish/English participatory, culturally-tailored, heat education-based intervention on farmworker heat knowledge in the Summer 2019. We used convenience sampling to recruit adult outdoor farmworkers from Central/Eastern Washington State, USA. Crews were randomized to receive the intervention (n = 40 participants) versus not receive the intervention (n = 43 participants). We assessed changes in heat knowledge, scored on a scale from 0 to 11, between baseline, immediate post-intervention, and post-season, which was approximately three months after baseline, using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. We compared differences in knowledge scores from baseline to post-season between groups using analysis of variance.RESULTS:
Average knowledge scores improved from 4.6 (standard deviation [sd] 1.5) to 6.3 (sd 2.0) pre to post season in the intervention group (p < 0.001). There was a greater improvement in pre-post knowledge scores in the intervention (average difference 1.6, sd 2.0) versus the comparison group (average difference 0.41, sd 1.7) (p = 0.04).CONCLUSIONS:
Participatory heat training was effective in improving farmworker heat knowledge over the course of a summer season. Results of this study will be used to guide heat prevention efforts for farmworkers. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Registration Number NCT04234802.Palavras-chave
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Fazendeiros
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Temperatura Alta
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Agromedicine
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA OCUPACIONAL
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos