Using Lay Health Promoters in Occupational Health: Outcome Evaluation in a Sample of Latino Poultry-Processing Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Carrillo L ; Coates ML ; Grzywacz JG ; Marín A ; Quandt SA
• Description:
  Lay Health Promoters (LHPs) are widely used in community health education, but their use and evaluation in occupational health has been limited to farm workers. Evaluation data were collected from 30 randomly selected Latino poultry processing workers who had an encounter with an LHP who delivered Maria's Story, an occupational health lesson about cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs). Participants had good recall of Maria's Story. Most participants (n = 18, 60%) could identify the primary occupational health exposure linked to CTDs, more than 50% of participants (n = 16) could recall one or more ways of preventing CTDs, and 43.3% (n = 13) described in detail recommended treatments. Nearly one-half (n = 12) reported an occupational health behavior change after hearing Maria's Story. The results of this study suggest that LHPs may be effective in promoting occupational health and reducing occupational health disparities among ethnic minorities in high-risk occupations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Farmers Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Occupational-sociology Public-health Racial-factors Risk-analysis Risk-factors Traumatic-injuries Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  449-466
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037022
• Citation:
  New Solut 2009 Apr; 19(4):449-466
• Contact Point Address:
  Joseph G. Grzywacz, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
• Email:
  grzywacz@wfubmc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20090831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:842247f34c96bfb367892e44d3fea34d8e12005b0f6ba61c0f2c01ec4e33da43b91014d0d9c7d974d1b4c1597638ff4c90b5a336634827802a9bddd753dd3312
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188199/cdc_188199_DS1.pdf
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