PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE INTERVENTION EVALUATION

生产性农业干预评价

• 批准号: 6087329
• 负责人: LARRY J CHAPMAN
• 金额: $ 21.6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2002-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6087329
• 关键词: agriculture worker; clinical research; dairy products; human subject; human therapy evaluation; information dissemination; injury prevention; musculoskeletal disorder; occupational hazard; occupational health /safety; questionnaires; vegetables

This project will evaluate the effectiveness of two production agriculture interventions that seek to reduce traumatic and musculoskeletal injuries. We plan to build on two on-going efforts: an intervention among dairy producers now completing its 3rd year and an intervention with fresh market vegetable growers now completing its 2nd year by accomplishing three specific aims: 1. Continue the two interventions for 24 additional months. We will reduce hazards (and thereby injuries) by encouraging dairy producers in Wisconsin and vegetable growers in a four state region (WI, IA, MI, MN) to adopt safer and more profitable production methods through a specially-designed information dissemination effort via the print media, public events, university Extension, the Internet, and other information channels that producers and growers already use to gather information about new production methods. We will begin continuing the interventions in the first year of this application (Mar00). 2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions. We plan to refine and continue, for two additional years, a number of process evaluation methods and annual mail questionnaires that are largely outcome evaluation methods. We will continue to administer these questionnaires to separate, population-based probability samples from each of the study groups (dairy n=1200/yr, vegetable n=800/yr) and to controls (300 Maryland dairy farmers, 200 strawberry growers) to determine: 1) if our materials are reaching and being received well by the target audiences, 2) if farmer adoption or awareness of each innovation or perceptions of relative safety or profit advantages are changing, and 3) if farmer-reported injuries or musculoskeletal discomfort associated with the innovations are changing. We will also solicit farmer perceptions about barriers to adopting the innovations we have been promoting and about how to make our intervention efforts more persuasive. We will evaluate each year of the two additional intervention years (Feb01, Feb02). 3. Add new production method innovations to each intervention. We will seek out farmer reports about production method innovations that could improve both safety and profits and then study and quantitatively evaluate the hazard-reducing and profit-enhancing aspects of the best candidates. We will then develop materials and a promotion plan for one or more innovations that can be added to each of the two ongoing intervention efforts each year. We will begin this work at the start of this project (Sept99).

该项目将评估两项旨在减少创伤和肌肉骨骼损伤的农业生产干预措施的有效性。 我们计划以两项正在进行的努力为基础：对乳制品生产商的干预现已完成第三年，对新鲜市场蔬菜种植者的干预现已完成第二年，通过实现三个具体目标： 1. 将两项干预措施再持续 24 个月。 我们将通过专门设计的信息传播工作，鼓励威斯康星州的乳制品生产商和四个州地区（威斯康星州、爱荷华州、密歇根州、明尼苏达州）的蔬菜种植者采用更安全、更有利可图的生产方法，从而减少危害（从而减少伤害）。印刷媒体、公共活动、大学推广、互联网以及生产者和种植者已经用来收集有关新生产方法的信息的其他信息渠道。 我们将在本申请的第一年（Mar00）开始继续干预。 2. 评估干预措施的有效性。 我们计划在另外两年内完善并继续实施一些过程评估方法和年度邮件调查问卷，这些方法主要是结果评估方法。 我们将继续对来自每个研究组（乳制品 n=1200/年，蔬菜 n=800/年）和对照（300 个马里兰州奶农，200 个草莓种植者）的单独、基于人群的概率样本进行管理，以确定：1) 我们的材料是否已到达目标受众并受到良好接受，2) 农民对每项创新的采用或认识或对相对安全或利润优势的看法是否正在改变，以及 3) 是否正在改变农民报告的与创新相关的伤害或肌肉骨骼不适正在发生变化。 我们还将征求农民对采用我们一直在推广的创新的障碍的看法，以及如何使我们的干预措施更有说服力。 我们将评估另外两个干预年（2001 年 2 月、2020 年 2 月）的每一年。 3.为每项干预措施添加新的生产方法创新。 我们将寻找有关可以提高安全性和利润的生产方法创新的农民报告，然后研究和定量评估最佳候选者的减少危害和增加利润的方面。 然后，我们将为一项或多项创新制定材料和推广计划，这些创新可以添加到每年两项正在进行的干预工作中。 我们将在该项目开始时（99 年 9 月）开始这项工作。