Striving to Provide Opportunities for Farm Worker Community Participation in Research

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• Personal Author:
  Crowe JL ; Keifer MC ; Salazar MK ; Crowe JL ; Keifer MC ; Salazar MK
• Description:
  Hispanic farm workers and their families in the U.S. face a number of environmental and occupational health risks, yet they are rarely given the opportunity to choose the focus of the research and interventions that take place in their communities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) can be one effective approach to changing this situation. CBPR is an approach to research that makes community members partners in research rather than subjects of research. This article describes the experience of El Proyecto Bienestar (The Well-Being Project), a CBPR project in the Yakima Valley, Washington, with the aim of facilitating the Hispanic community's involvement in the identification and prioritization of occupational and environmental health issues among farm workers. The project utilized three forms of data collection (key informant interviews, community surveys, and a town hall meeting) to create a list of environmental and occupational health issues of concern. Investigators strove to provide opportunities for community participation in the various stages of research: study concept and design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, conclusions, and dissemination of results. This article describes the involvement that community members had at each stage of the three forms of data collection and outlines the basic findings that led the Community Advisory Board to prioritize four areas for future work. In addition, it describes the challenges the project faced from the researcher perspective. Using examples from this experience, we conclude that this model may be an effective way for farm workers and their families to have a voice in prioritizing health and safety issues for research and action in their communities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Demography Environmental Health Family Farmers Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Agricultural Community Community-based Participatory Research Demographic-characteristics Environmental-health Environmental Health Environmental Justice Epidemiology Farmers Families Farm Workers Health-hazards Health-surveys Hispanic Humans Latino Occupational-health Occupational Health Physical-reactions Racial-factors Work-environment

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  205-219
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033978
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2008 May; 14(2):205-219
• Contact Point Address:
  J.L. Crowe, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20030901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20070831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:101717f2c3b00731b45cc5965d255ed41baae48fad128a6197ca49b9ee92cc916a1acb13d67e70079dbfa1af52c42ae4ec1e7daa85274cb86966912abc50af3d
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189372/cdc_189372_DS1.pdf
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