Reliability and validity of the Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool)

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• Personal Author:
  Garrigues L ; López de Castro B ; Nguyen T ; Olson, Ryan ; Wipfli B ; Wright RR
• Description:
  Home care workers are a priority population for ergonomic assessment and intervention, but research on caregivers' exposures to hazards is limited. The current project evaluated the reliability and validity of an ergonomic self-assessment tool called Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool). Participants (N = 23) completed a background survey followed by 10-14 days of self-monitoring with the STAT. Results showed that the most frequent task was house cleaning, and that participants regularly performed dangerous manual client moving and transferring tasks. Researcher in-home observations of 14 workers (duration = 2 h) demonstrated that workers' self-assessments were moderately reliable. Correlational and multi-level analyses of daily self-assessment data revealed that several task exposures were significantly related to daily fatigue and/or pain. Other associations have implications for Total Worker Health; for example, daily stress was positively associated with both pain and consumption of high calorie snacks. Findings support the STAT as a reliable and potentially valid tool for measuring home care workers' exposures to physically demanding tasks. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Aging
  • Ergonomics
  • Fatigue
  • Health Personnel
  • Men
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Women
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • Humans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Age-groups
  • Health-care-personnel
  • Ergonomics
  • Safety-measures
  • Monitoring-systems
  • Manual-lifting
  • Workers
  More +
• ISSN:
  0003-6870
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045482
• Citation:
  Appl Ergon 2014 Jul; 45(4):1157-1166
• Email:
  olsonry@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• End Date:
  20250630
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200888/cdc_200888_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 510.90 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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