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• Alternative Title:
  Prev Sci
• Personal Author:
  Guerin, Rebecca J. ; Okun, Andrea H. ; Barile, John P. ; Emshoff, James G. ; Ediger, Michelle D. ; Baker, Devin S.
• Description:
  US adolescents experience a higher rate of largely preventable job-related injuries compared with adults. Safety education is considered critical to the prevention of these incidents. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a foundational curriculum from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Talking Safety, to change adolescents' workplace safety and health knowledge, attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy, and behavioral intention to engage in workplace safety actions. The study also examines the impact of teacher fidelity of curriculum implementation on student outcomes. A multilevel evaluation, based on a modified theory of planned behavior, was conducted in 2016 with 1748 eighth-graders in Miami-Dade, Florida. Post-intervention, students had statistically significant increases (p < .05) in mean scores across outcomes: workplace safety knowledge (34%), attitude (5%), subjective norm (7%), self-efficacy (7%), and behavioral intention (7%). Consistent with theory, gains in attitude (b = 0.25, p < .001), subjective norm (b = 0.07, p < .01), and self-efficacy (b = 0.55, p < .001) were associated with gains in behavioral intention. Higher levels of implementation fidelity were associated with significant gains across outcome measures: knowledge (b = 0.60, p < .001), attitude (b = 0.08, p < .01), subjective norm (b = 0.04, p < .001), self-efficacy (b = 0.07, p < .01) and behavioral intention (b = 0.07, p < .01). Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of Talking Safety, delivered with fidelity, at positively changing measured outcomes, and provide support for using this curriculum as an essential component of any school-based, injury prevention program for young workers.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Article Curriculum Female Fidelity Of Implementation Florida Humans Injury Prevention Male Middle School Models, Theoretical Multilevel Modeling Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Occupational Safety And Health Program Evaluation Theory Of Planned Behavior Young Worker

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• Source:
  Prev Sci. 20(4):510-520
• Pubmed ID:
  30904978
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6636347
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ea360d74017aa5496ae7dc773fce91cb4ea82292e122ce30258fb3be746e265a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79946/cdc_79946_DS1.pdf
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