Recruiting Small Manufacturing Worksites That Employ Multiethnic, Low-wage Workforces Into a Cancer Prevention Research Trial

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Barbeau, Elizabeth M. ; Wallace, Lorraine ; Lederman, Ruth ; Lightman, Nancy ; Stoddard, Anne ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  INTRODUCTION: Worksites, including those that employ multiethnic, low-wage workforces, represent a strategic venue for reaching populations at risk for developing cancer. METHODS: We surveyed 197 small manufacturing worksites prior to an effort to recruit their workforces into a randomized clinical trial designed to test the effectiveness of a cancer prevention intervention among multiethnic, low-wage manufacturing workers. This paper assesses the external validity of the trial based on three factors: the percentage of potential trial sites excluded from consideration, the percentage of eligible worksites that adopted the trial, and worksite characteristics associated with adoption. RESULTS: We found no statistically significant differences between worksites that adopted the trial and worksites that declined the trial with regard to employee demographics, anticipated changes in workforce size, and perceived importance and history of offering health promotion and occupational health and safety activities. CONCLUSION: Small manufacturing worksites present a viable venue for reaching multiethnic, low-wage populations with cancer prevention programs, although program adoption rates may be low in this sector. Worksites that adopted the trial are likely to represent worksites deemed eligible for the trial. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biomedical Research Humans Industry Neoplasms Patient Selection Randomized Controlled Trials As Topic Salaries And Fringe Benefits
• Keywords:
  Exposure-assessment; Risk-analysis; Analytical-processes; Occupational-safety-programs; Occupational-health-programs; Cancer; Epidemiology; Statistical-analysis; Demographic-characteristics; Racial-factors; Cancer-rates
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2004; 1(3).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant-Number-R01-OH-004012
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  9 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026228
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6f128af71775185f5d4520c0f1134aa7e9d445b966ddb8f7510bf456d954b4c34e06d3bc26327ce57007a2a10ebb75be65c10a4a7e179755a9ae1a53ac307886
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19849/cdc_19849_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 300.72 KB ]