Pesticide Training for Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers

Details

• Personal Author:
  Anger KW ; McCauley LA ; Scherer J
• Description:
  This project was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of commonly used pesticide safety training materials with migrant adolescent farmworkers. Most migrant farmworkers are poorly educated and do not speak English as a primary language. While materials are available to train farmworkers on pesticide safety, few of the training methods have been evaluated with non-English speaking populations and no studies have addressed the effectiveness of agriculture health and safety training with adolescent migrant farmworkers. The purpose of the project was to determine if cultural, developmental, and age-related factors are associated with the adolescent's knowledge and beliefs of pesticide hazards and safety precautions and to what extent these factors influence the effectiveness of pesticide safety training. Specifically the project compared 1) the effectiveness of video methods of training and more interactive "flipchart" approaches to training, 2) the effectiveness of training delivered in the context of an educational program versus traditional methods of grower initiated training, 3) the effectiveness of traditional methods of delivering the training (audio-visual materials, training packets) when compared to an individualized computer-assisted approach. The educational interventions used in this project are built upon previous community-based projects with the migrant agricultural community and were dependent upon collaborative relationships with organizations that serve and advocate for the Latino agricultural community. Results from this project provide a model for future educational intervention research in agricultural occupational safety and health and contribute to the knowledge of workplace exposures and health effects in this vulnerable population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Insecticides Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Worker-health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-68
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023852
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2004-106471
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R01-OH-004230, 2003 Jan; :1-68
• Contact Point Address:
  Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201-3098
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Work Environment and Workforce: Special Populations
• Performing Organization:
  Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201-3098
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20000930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:553c796b7876022399443c9670bbfa9e9a1a3945b5526581fe1eefddca42da175c5ad8173db70cedf03d5cdc1284caf8f9de989fb7a91ccd856b020f0bfaa033
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218166/cdc_218166_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.26 MB ]