التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Assessing pesticide safety knowledge among Hispanic migrant farmworkers in Oregon. |
| المؤلفون: |
McCauley LA; University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 420 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096, USA. lmccaule@nursing.upenn.edu, Shapiro SE, Scherer JA, Lasarev MR |
| المصدر: |
Journal of agricultural safety and health [J Agric Saf Health] 2004 Aug; Vol. 10 (3), pp. 177-86. |
| نوع المنشور: |
Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
| اللغة: |
English |
| بيانات الدورية: |
Publisher: ASAE Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9613956 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1074-7583 (Print) Linking ISSN: 10747583 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Agric Saf Health Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: |
Original Publication: St. Joseph, MI : ASAE, c1995- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: |
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice* , Occupational Health*, Agricultural Workers' Diseases/*prevention & control , Environmental Exposure/*adverse effects , Hispanic or Latino/*psychology , Pesticides/*adverse effects, Adolescent ; Adult ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Mexico/ethnology ; Oregon ; Risk Assessment ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Transients and Migrants ; United States ; United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| مستخلص: |
The purpose of this article is to report on the development and initial use of a pesticide knowledge test (PKT) specifically designed to evaluate agricultural workers' knowledge of the content mandated by the federal Worker Protection Standard (WPS). The PKT is a 20-item, true-false test, used in a sample of 414 adult and adolescent migrant farmworkers in Oregon. The overall mean score, i.e., number correct, was 15.67(78.4%), with both adults and adolescents demonstrating the most difficulty with questions related to the overall health effects of pesticides. The internal consistency was 0.73, when estimated using a method to correct for small sample sizes. Only six items had less than 70% correct answers. Content validity was achieved by basing the items directly on the Worker Protection Standard; face validity was obtained by having the final version of the test reviewed by a bilingual (English-Spanish) educator familiar with the requirements of the WPS. Overall, adult participants scored better than adolescents, and those with previous pesticide training scored better than those without. There were no differences in scores based on gender or whether the test was taken in English or Spanish; however, participants who spoke indigenous languages scored significantly lower than those who did not. These results indicate that the PKT is a valid, reliable measure of worker knowledge of the content of the WPS, although it does not measure the extent to which that knowledge is actually used in the work setting. |
| معلومات مُعتمدة: |
R01 OH04230 United States OH NIOSH CDC HHS |
| المشرفين على المادة: |
0 (Pesticides) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: |
Date Created: 20041006 Date Completed: 20041025 Latest Revision: 20211203 |
| رمز التحديث: |
20231215 |
| DOI: |
10.13031/2013.16474 |
| PMID: |
15461134 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
MEDLINE |
