Navigating the Ethical and Methodological Dimensions of a Farm Safety Photovoice Project

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• Personal Author:
  Becot FA ; Buchanan EA ; Inwood SM
• Description:
  Scholars have noted persistent high rates of agricultural health and safety incidents and the need to develop more effective interventions. Participatory research provides an avenue to broaden the prevailing research paradigms and approaches by allowing those most impacted to illuminate and work to solve those aspects of their lives. One such approach is photovoice, an emancipatory visual narrative approach. Yet, despite its broad appeal, photovoice can be hard to implement. In this article, we leverage our experience using photovoice for a farm children safety project to describe and reflect on the ethical and methodological aspects broadly relevant to agricultural health and safety topics. We first contextualize the tensions of navigating between photovoice, the research ethics committees (RECs) regulatory frameworks, and competing views on visual representations in agriculture. We then discuss the sources of risks to participants and researchers, how we addressed these risks, and how these risks unfolded during the research phase of the photovoice activity. We conclude with three lessons we (re)learned: the importance of collaborating with RECs, the need to increase preparation to limit psychological risks to participants and researchers, and avenues to augment the emancipatory power of photovoice in a virtual environment. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Agriculture
  • Mental Health
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Young workers
  • Agricultural safety
  • Agriculture
  • Children
  • Safety research
  • Intervention effectiveness
  • Ethics
  • Psychological effects
  • Author Keywords: Agricultural health and safety
  • Children
  More +
• ISSN:
  1176-7529
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  249-263
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067715
• Citation:
  J Bioeth Inq 2023 Jun; 20(2):249-263
• Contact Point Address:
  Florence A. Becot, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 1000 N Oak Ave, ML-1, Marshfield, WI, 54449, USA
• Email:
  becot.florence@marshfieldresearch.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
• End Date:
  20250929
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/229978/cdc_229978_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 559.39 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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