Farm stressor inventory: development and early assessment.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Heaney CA
• Description:
  A survey instrument, the Farm Stressor Inventory (FSI), was developed to assist in identifying and measuring stressors experienced by the principal operators of family farms in the United States. A preliminary assessment of the FSI was conducted. A review was conducted of the literature of farm family stress, data from a farmer assistance hot line in Wisconsin, and data from focus groups of farmers in Kentucky. Questionnaire items were drafted, and the drafted questionnaire was tested using a focus group of seven farmers; the farmers then discussed the questionnaire items. The questionnaire was revised based on feedback from the focus group. Sections in the questionnaire included weather and other factors, personal finances, workload, equipment, skills and abilities, hazardous tasks and experiences, characteristics of the job, geographic isolation, family, and retirement. The author suggests that, once the FSI has undergone psychometric assessments, it can be used to describe the prevalence and distribution of various stressors in the farming population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-workers; Physical-stress; Job-stress; Emotional-stress; Psychological-factors; Risk-factors; Epidemiology;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-85
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00229129
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96106919
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1994 Sep; :1-85
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Science, NIOSH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 85 pages, 16 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243406/cdc_243406_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]