Refinement and Enhancement of Agricultural Safety Curricula for Children (REACCH)

完善和加强儿童农业安全课程（REACCH）

• 批准号: 7631269
• 负责人: Deborah Baker Reed
• 金额: $ 35.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7631269
• 关键词: Refinement; Enhancement; Agricultural; Safety; Curricula

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent studies demonstrated the positive impact of farm safety day camps on the safety attitudes and behaviors of participants and their families. These effects are somewhat modest and tend to diminish over time. This project proposes to design and test the efficacy of enhanced curriculum materials and their de- livery methods to children attending farm safety days in an attempt to strengthen and extend the positive effects of these programs. A four-group, quasi-experimental community trial will measure immediate and long-term effects on children's and their parents' farm safety knowledge, attitude, and behaviors. The trial is led by the Pis of two completed NIOSH-funded R01 independent evaluation studies of farm safety day camps in partnership with the Progressive Agriculture Foundation (PAF). Specific aims are: 1. Develop enhanced safety day curricula for three high risk activities for children who live on, work on, or visit farms, and develop supplemental materials to be delivered as boosters after the safety day. 2. Strengthen the training of instructors for the targeted activities. 3. Test the efficacy of the enhanced curriculum and strengthened training by comparing safety-related outcomes for children and their parents and comparing ratings by instructors in enhanced versus usual safety days. 4. Test the efficacy of the supplemental boosters by comparing safety-related outcomes for children and their parents who receive boosters versus those who do not receive boosters. 5. Incorporate refined curricula and programming into the PAF Safety Day Manual; share findings with other children's safety organizations. In Phase 1, findings from the previous studies will be used to strengthen the current curriculum and instructors' delivery of safety education in three targeted content areas. Materials will be developed for the safety day instructors, for classroom teachers of the safety day participants, and for boosters mailed to participants several months after the safety day. In Phase 2, a 2 (enhanced curriculum vs. standard) x 2 (boosters vs. no boosters) x 4 (repeated measures) design will be used to assess changes in safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Eight communities that hold annual safety days for children in local schools, grades 4-5, will participate. A balanced design, with 200 children in each block (total N = 800), will be used. Data will consist of pre and post-tests for children, and telephone surveys at 6 and 12 months for children and their parents. Quality of instruction will be assessed through observation and analysis of videotapes made of the sessions and assessment by instructors. This community trial will assist in strengthening the positive effects of an existing intervention that has been readily accepted in local communities. It has the potential to improve the health and safety of all children who attend a safety day. Children's injury rates may be reduced through their participation in tested community-based, developmentally appropriate interventions that are grounded in local values.

描述（由申请人提供）：最近的研究表明，农场安全日间营对参与者及其家人的安全态度和行为产生了积极影响。这些影响有些温和，并且会随着时间的推移而减弱。该项目建议设计和测试增强课程材料及其向参加农场安全日的儿童提供的方法的有效性，以试图加强和扩大这些计划的积极影响。一项由四组组成的准实验性社区试验将衡量对儿童及其父母的农场安全知识、态度和行为的直接和长期影响。该试验由 Pis 领导，与进步农业基金会 (PAF) 合作，完成了两项由 NIOSH 资助的农场安全日间营 R01 独立评估研究。具体目标是： 1. 为生活在农场、在农场工作或参观农场的儿童的三项高风险活动制定强化安全日课程，并制定补充材料，以在安全日后作为强化材料提供。 2、加强针对性活动指导员培训。 3. 通过比较儿童及其家长的安全相关结果以及比较强化安全日与平常安全日中教师的评分，测试强化课程和强化培训的有效性。 4. 通过比较接受加强剂与未接受加强剂的儿童及其父母的安全相关结果，测试补充加强剂的功效。 5. 将完善的课程和计划纳入PAF安全日手册；与其他儿童安全组织分享调查结果。在第一阶段，之前的研究结果将用于加强当前课程和教师在三个目标内容领域的安全教育。将为安全日讲师、安全日参与者的课堂教师以及在安全日几个月后邮寄给参与者的助推器制作材料。在第二阶段，将采用 2（强化课程与标准课程）x 2（加强课程与无加强课程）x 4（重复措施）设计来评估安全知识、态度和行为的变化。为当地学校 4-5 年级儿童举办年度安全日的八个社区将参加。将采用平衡设计，每个区块有 200 名儿童（总数 N = 800）。数据将包括儿童的事前和事后测试，以及儿童及其父母在 6 个月和 12 个月时的电话调查。教学质量将通过观察和分析课程录像以及教师的评估来评估。该社区试验将有助于加强当地社区已接受的现有干预措施的积极效果。它有可能改善所有参加安全日活动的儿童的健康和安全。儿童受伤率可以通过参与经过测试的基于社区的、适合发展的干预措施来降低，这些干预措施植根于当地价值观。