Evaluating an Agricultural Community Suicide Prevention Program: Instrumentation and Impact

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• Personal Author:
  Kolawole O ; Kussainov N ; Mazur JM ; Oldham C ; Sampson S
• Description:
  In this study, researchers detail an evaluation of a pilot community-based farmer suicide prevention program that used QPR-based training customized for the agricultural community. Community-based mental health programs have been cited as key to addressing the worldwide suicide rate, but evidence of their execution and utility is not well documented, particularly within the agricultural community context. Researchers used Kirkpatrick's (1998) training evaluation model and a pre-post one-group design (Eseryel, 2002) of consenting training participants to conduct a preliminary assessment of programmatic impact. Using a revised Willingness to Intervene Against Suicide Questionnaire (Aldrich et al., 2014), which treated the questionnaire as an interval level scale suitable for parametric analysis, researchers found statistically significant differences in pretraining willingness to intervene between male and female respondents as well as those who work in agriculture and those who do not. An analysis of those respondents who completed both pre- and post-training surveys indicated statistically significant growth of 0.21 logits in the willingness to intervene variable, as well as remarkable growth for male participants in comparison to female participants. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Suicide
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Workers Author Keywords: Evaluation Of Suicide Prevention Program Community Based Farmer Suicide Prevention Gender Factors Intervention Mental Health Rasch Analysis Willingness To Intervene
• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  33-45
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067705
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2023 Jan; 29(1):33-45
• Contact Point Address:
  Carolyn Oldham, Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
• Email:
  carolynoldham@uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20120701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20240630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bb1d2f5f5bb74904bafd0c28bde62267d319203c2c0ecc8645a43c0772cc78e804c882865f6afaac0ea24b24feb6a4a08c27bcead987b6436df14ef131481e5f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/229968/cdc_229968_DS1.pdf
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