SSW Works: A Virtual Learning Environment for Occupational Skin Cancer Prevention

SSW Works：职业性皮肤癌预防的虚拟学习环境

基本信息

批准号：
10676503
负责人：
Mary K Buller
金额：
$ 97.96万
依托单位：
KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10676503
关键词：
Adopted Adult African American African American population Algorithms American Area Asbestos Attention Attitude Benzene Carcinogens Cessation of life Communities Control Groups Databases Development Diagnosis Diffusion of Innovation E-learning Education Educational Curriculum Effectiveness Employee Enrollment Evaluation Exposure to Focus Groups Funding Goals Health Health Care Costs Hispanic Americans Human Resources Industry International Intervention Learning Literature Malignant Neoplasms Mediating Names National Cancer Institute National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Occupational Occupations Phase Policies Prevention Research Principal Investigator Process Production Protocols documentation Publishing Quality of life Randomized Controlled Trials Readiness Recreation Reporting Research Research Personnel Resources Risk Safety Schools Skin Cancer Small Business Innovation Research Grant Staging Students Surgeon System Technology Testing The Sun Training Treatment Cost United States Update Vendor Vinyl Chloride Work Workplace base educational atmosphere effectiveness testing evidence base high risk implementation strategy improved innovation keratinocyte melanoma primary outcome programs prototype randomized trial safety education safety practice school district skin cancer prevention solar ultraviolet radiation sun protection sun safety theories usability vector

项目摘要

Americans who work outdoors are exposed to an extreme amount of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) over a lifetime that substantially increases their risk for developing skin cancer. Annually, skin cancer is diagnosed in over 3.5 million U.S. adults, melanoma kills nearly 7,000 Americans, and treatment costs at least $8 billion. The U.S. Surgeon General has identified occupational sun safety as a national priority. Our team has spent the past two decades developing a successful comprehensive approach to occupational sun protection in 5 trials funded largely by the National Cancer Institute. Sun Safe Workplaces (SSW) combines policy and education to increase workplace actions on sun safety and employee sun protection practices. In this SBIR Fast-Track application, we will develop a virtual learning environment (VLE), SSW Works, to distribute the SSW program to American workplaces. It will be comprised of a database, content management (interactive toolbox), and media platform (trackable training) that tailors the SSW program to management's readiness to innovate on sun safety based Diffusion of Innovations Theory. SSW Works will better integrate SSW into safety training by improving appropriateness for Hispanic and African American workers and conforming with the latest learning management systems technology (LMS). Strong scientific premise comes from the published literature and our 5 previous studies that demonstrated SSW is feasible and effective in public works, public safety, and outdoor recreation workplaces. The Phase I specific aims will establish the feasibility of SSW Works by 1) creating and validating an algorithm to tailor resources and implementation strategies to employers' stages in the diffusion of innovations process; 2) identifying unique attitudes, barriers, and practices related to sun safety among Hispanic and African American employees in focus group discussion and adjusting the SSW content; and 3) creating a prototype of the SSW Works VLE, including inputs, staging algorithm and tailored report, employee training compatible with a popular LMS, and storyboards of brief videos for managers and employees and testing it for feasibility and usability with managers and Hispanic and African American outdoor workers, and confirming that the training can operate within a popular LMS. In Phase II, SSW Works will be fully programmed and tested for effectiveness by achieving the specific aims of: 1) producing the full SSW Works, in English and Spanish, for distribution of the evidence-based SSW and 2) conducting a randomized controlled trial with 20 workplaces evaluating impact of SSW distributed over the SSW Works on employees' sun safety practices (primary outcome). The primary hypothesis is: compared to employers in the minimal information control group, employers assigned to receive SSW Works will have employees that practice more sun protection at posttest. The SBIR Fast-Track research is significant and innovative. SSW Works will have high impact and commercial potential because outdoor workforce is large and at very high risk for skin cancer, improving sun safety will reduce health care costs and save lives, and there are few commercial competitors.

在户外工作的美国人在一段时间内会暴露在大量的太阳紫外线辐射 (UV) 下。一生中，大大增加了患皮肤癌的风险。每年，皮肤癌都会被诊断出来黑色素瘤影响了超过 350 万美国成年人，导致近 7,000 名美国人死亡，治疗费用至少为 80 亿美元。美国卫生局局长已将职业阳光安全确定为国家优先事项。我们的团队花了过去二十年通过 5 次试验成功开发出职业防晒综合方法主要由国家癌症研究所资助。 Sun 安全工作场所 (SSW) 将政策和教育结合起来增加工作场所有关防晒安全和员工防晒实践的行动。在这个 SBIR 快速通道中应用程序，我们将开发一个虚拟学习环境（VLE）SSW Works，以分发SSW程序到美国的工作场所。它将由数据库、内容管理（交互式工具箱）和媒体平台（可跟踪培训），根据管理层创新的意愿定制 SSW 计划基于阳光安全的创新扩散理论。 SSW Works 将更好地将 SSW 纳入安全培训提高西班牙裔和非裔美国工人的适用性并符合最新的学习成果管理系统技术（LMS）。强有力的科学前提来自已发表的文献和我们的先前的 5 项研究证明 SSW 在公共工程、公共安全和户外方面可行且有效休闲工作场所。第一阶段的具体目标将通过 1) 创建和建立 SSW 工程的可行性验证一种算法，以根据雇主的扩散阶段定制资源和实施策略创新过程； 2) 识别人们与阳光安全相关的独特态度、障碍和做法西班牙裔和非裔美国员工参与焦点小组讨论并调整 SSW 内容；和 3) 创建 SSW Works VLE 原型，包括输入、分期算法和定制报告、员工与流行的 LMS 兼容的培训以及为经理和员工提供的简短视频故事板与经理以及西班牙裔和非裔美国户外工作者一起测试其可行性和可用性，以及确认培训可以在流行的 LMS 中运行。在第二阶段，SSW工程将全面竣工通过实现以下具体目标来编程和测试有效性：1）生成完整的 SSW 工程，英语和西班牙语，用于分发基于证据的 SSW，以及 2) 进行随机对照研究在 20 个工作场所进行的试验，评估分布在 SSW 工厂的 SSW 对员工阳光安全的影响实践（主要结果）。主要假设是：与雇主相比，在最少的信息中对照组，被分配接受 SSW Works 的雇主将让员工多晒太阳测试后保护。 SBIR 快速通道研究意义重大且具有创新性。 SSW 工程将具有高影响和商业潜力，因为户外劳动力数量庞大且患皮肤癌的风险非常高，提高阳光安全性将降低医疗保健成本并拯救生命，而且几乎没有商业竞争对手。