Agricultural Disability Awareness and Risk Education (AgDARE) for High School Students

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• Personal Author:
  Kidd PS ; Rayens MK ; Reed DB ; Westneat S
• Description:
  Objective: Develop and test a farm health and injury prevention educational intervention for high school agriculture students. Setting: Twenty one high schools in Kentucky, Iowa, and Mississippi. Methods: A quasiexperimental crossover design was used to test the effectiveness of two sets of instructional materials designed through participatory action research with agriculture teachers and students. Narrative simulations based on farm work stories and simulations of farm work while students pretended to have a disability were completed in 14 schools (n = 373) over the academic year. Students in seven control schools (n = 417) received no intervention but completed, in the same time frame as students in the treatment schools, demographic surveys and premeasures and post-measures of farm safety attitudes and intent to change safety behaviors. One year after the intervention, 29 students from the treatment group received farm visits to measure their farm safety behaviors. Results: Students engaged in hazardous work on farms. Thirty two were involved in tractor overturns and 11 had received injuries from rotating power take-off mechanisms. One fourth reported hearing problems, and 21% had respiratory symptoms after working in dusty farm surroundings. Students who completed at least two physical and two narrative simulations of the Agricultural Disability Awareness and Risk Education (AgDARE) curriculum showed statistically significant positive changes in farm safety attitude and intent to change behaviors. Conclusions: Adolescents engage in farm work that places them at risk for injury and illness. The AgDARE curriculum may be an effective and efficient method of teaching farm safety in high school agriculture classes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Demography Dust Education Farmers Hazardous Substances Hearing Irritants Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Hypersensitivity Respiratory Protective Devices Respiratory System Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-processes Agricultural-products Agricultural-workers Demographic-characteristics Dust-analysis Dust-collection Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Dusts Educational-resource-centers Hazards Health-hazards Hearing-level Hearing-protection Injuries Injury-prevention Respiratory-hypersensitivity Respiratory-irritants Respiratory-protection Respiratory-rate Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-clothing Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs

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• ISSN:
  1353-8047
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034402
• Citation:
  Inj Prev 2001 Sep; 7(Suppl 1):i59-i63
• Contact Point Address:
  Deborah Reed, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, 1141 Red Mile Road, Suite 102, Lexington, KY 40504, USA
• Email:
  dbreed01@pop.uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Injury Prevention
• Supplement:
  1
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e789b34fb07e0dd38cf0dda0edba1973d83fb4a1d0b4a0890e27b9788a76ca79382f237d5f9d5c8eb4ee2c2c2784be91f59db4f6fb83c3b9d3a09117dc921c1e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189621/cdc_189621_DS1.pdf
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