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7 Review of Intervention Research
7 Review of Intervention Research
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has devoted significant resources toward developing and evaluating interventions focusing on the agriculture, fishing, and forestry industries. Review of the program indicates that intervention research-related projects span several of the AFF Program defined goals including those focusing on Priority Populations at Risk (Goal 2)
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LOGIC SUBMODEL Information received from the NIOSH AFF Program (NIOSH, 2006a) re lated to inputs, activities, outputs, intermediate outcomes, and end outcomes in intervention research is summarized in the intervention research logic submodel (Figure 7-1)
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Agricultural Safety Promotion System 16. Ag Centers Time needed to build relationships with partners and constituents Lack of resources and interest in funding surveillance Adverse effects of economic downturn Current political climate Seasonality of industries, weather, climate change Uncertainty regarding immigration issues Farms becoming larger with less reliance on child labor Funding periods limit ability to evaluate long-term effects of intervention Poor national and political understanding of scope and cost of occupational disease and public health External Factors FIGURE 7-1 Intervention research logic submodel.
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Occupational Injury Prevention in Alaska -- Commercial Fishing, AFS 1990-2010 3,388,092 Helicopter Logging Ergonomic Interventions for Youth Working in Agriculture DART 2000-2006 370,104 Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Logger Safety Training Program DSR 2000-2004 205,403 Deck Safety for Commercial Fishing Vessels AFS 2004-2006 198,424 Environmental Tractor Cab System Integrity DRDS 2001-2005 778,570 Emerging Agricultural Problems -- Effectiveness of Hand Washing in DSHEFS 1996-2004 1,078,076 Reducing Agricultural Worker Exposure to Pesticides Cancer Control Demonstration Projects for Farming Populations DSHEFS 1990-1997 >46,304 New Technology to Increase ROPS Use on Tractors DSR 2000-2006 1,222,948 Development of Automatic ROPS DSR 1992-1999 392,545 Development of Automatic ROPS Overturn Sensor DSR 1994-1999 484,492 Commercialization of a Cost-Effective ROPS (CROPS) Design DSR 2003-2004 122,825 Anthropometry of Agriculture Populations DSR 1996-2003 718,369 Agricultural Safety Promotion System DSR 1995-1997 1,000,000 Ag Centers OEP 1997-2006 74,885,568 NOTE: AFS = Alaska Field Station, DART = Division of Applied Research and Technology, DRDS = Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, DSHEFS = Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, DSR = Division of Safety Research, OEP = Office of Extramural Programs.
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Fishing Vessel Fatalities Intervention research related to fishing vessel fatalities has been the focus of several intramural and extramural projects, including Commercial Fishing Safety Training in Alaska: 1993-2006, Injury Prevention in the Commercial Fishing Industry (at the Alaska Field Station, AFS) , Deck Safety for Commercial Fishing Vessels (AFS)
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Relevance to Needs of Special Populations Gender is often included in examinations of risk factors for injury and illness, but no evidence was found to suggest that it was being specifically considered in the intervention research projects examined. Vulnerable working populations were often the focus of AFF Program intervention projects, including the exten sive emphasis on childhood agricultural injury prevention, migrant and minority populations, loggers, and fishermen.
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TABLE 7-2 Federal Agencies Partnering with the NIOSH AFF Program on High-Priority Populations at Risk CHILDHOOD AGRICULTURAL INJURY PREVENTION Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Community and Migrant Health Centers Consumer Product Safety Commission Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) , Maternal Child Health Bureau Indian Health Service National Center for Injury Prevention and Control National Institute of Child Health and Human Development U.S.
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In addition, many outputs were developed to reduce injury and illness related to tractors and equipment, livestock, musculoskeletal disorders, and pesticide exposure. High-Priority Subjects Tractor-Related Injury Intervention Research This research has produced numerous outputs aimed at reducing tractor related fatalities through the Community Partners for Healthy Farming Inter vention.
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have resulted from the AFF Program, including the following: 1. Community Partners for Healthy Farming Intervention Research: • Ergonomic Interventions in Wine Grape and Tree Fruit Production • Healthy Farmers-Healthy Profits -- direct-market vegetable producers Healthy Farmers-Healthy Profits -- tame berry producers in six upper • Midwest states 2.
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. Pesticide Exposure Intervention research outputs related to pesticide exposure were produced by such projects as Interventions To Reduce Pesticide Exposures Among Agricultural Workers and Their Families (Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center)
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These examples make up only a small portion of the intervention research outputs produced, but they demonstrate an awareness of the need to prepare materials in a user-friendly manner that is appropriate for the intended audience with some exceptions such as the migrant workers who do not use computers as a source of information and may have low English or Spanish literacy. INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES AFF Program intervention research activities have resulted in numerous training and education outputs that are being used in the workplace or in school or apprentice programs.
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Standards, Regulations, Public Policy, and Voluntary Guidelines The AFF Program has produced several examples of standards, regulations, public policy, and voluntary guidelines related to intervention research. Those outputs include revised or proposed standards related to ROPS for tractors, leg islation providing rebates for ROPS retrofits, sales tax exemptions for purchase of personal protective equipment, guidelines for children's agricultural tasks, and support for development of a statewide cholinesterase-monitoring program and a federal logging standard.
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Coast Guard and numerous other partners in Alaska to implement new safety requirements probably contributed substantially to the 96 percent survival rate of commercial fishermen involved in vessel sinkings and capsizings in 2004; the survival rate was only 73 percent in 1991. NIOSH also reports that a pilot eye injury prevention project funded by the AFF Program in Florida helped to reduce eye injuries (by 75 percent)
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