Farm Theater: A Novel Safety Strategy Approach for Agricultural Communities

农场剧院：农业社区的新型安全战略方法

• 批准号: 8922825
• 负责人: Deborah Baker Reed
• 金额: $ 30.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8922825
• 关键词: Farm; Theater; Novel; Safety; Strategy

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Excessive worker injury rates continue in agriculture. Adult and senior farmers in the Southern U.S. region experience the highest occurrence of agricultural occupational injury and mortality in the nation. In this community-based, translationa intervention effectiveness research study, we will work with established farm community organizations in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, to develop and test a novel intervention: didactic reader's theater, with 450 adult and senior farmers, and their family members, to positively change farm work culture and safety behavior. A comparison group (n=450) will allow rigorous analysis of the effect of the intervention. In the final year we will pilot test the intervention's effect with younger farmers (n=80), plus a comparison group, (n=80). Together with the farm organizations, we will establish mechanisms to sustain the intervention in farm communities. We expect, given our pilot data, that this intervention will have a substantial impact on decreasing injury risk in the target states and other southern states, with generalizability to multiple rural areas in the United States. This proposal addresses HP 2020 Occupational Safety and Health through the NORA Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing (AgFF) Sector Council's Strategic Goal #2 - Vulnerable workers (subset older farmers), Action step 2.43: "Facilitate the development and evaluation of high quality and appropriate materials where gaps exist"; Goal #3: "Move proven health and safety strategies into agricultural, forestry and fishing workplaces through the development of partnerships and collaborative efforts"; Goal #4: "Reduce the number, rate, and severity of traumatic injuries and deaths involving hazards of production agriculture and support activities", and Goal #5: "Improve the health and well-being of agricultural workers by reducing occupational causes or contributing factors to acute and chronic illness and disease". It also addresses the cross sectors of work organization, health disparities, traumatic injury, and stress-related disorders. The specific aims are to: 1. Develop and deliver, in cooperation with the farm community, a translational intervention, didactic readers theater, to reduce injury and enhance the health of adult and senior farmers, and their families; 2. Test the efficacy of the agricultural health/safety didactic readers theater in changig farm work behavior of adult and senior farmers and their families; 3. Strengthen the local capacity of agricultural communities and organizations to develop and deliver effective health and safety interventions through theater and other approaches, over time (sustainability).

描述（由申请人提供）：农业中工伤率过高。美国南部地区的成年和老年农民的农业职业伤害和死亡率是全国最高的。在这项基于社区的转化干预有效性研究中，我们将与肯塔基州、田纳西州和密西西比州的既定农场社区组织合作，开发和测试一种新颖的干预措施：教学读者剧场，由 450 名成年和老年农民及其家人参与成员，积极改变农场工作文化和安全行为。对照组（n = 450）将允许对干预效果进行严格分析。最后一年，我们将在年轻农民（n=80）和对照组（n=80）中试点测试干预措施的效果。我们将与农场组织一起建立维持对农场社区干预的机制。根据我们的试点数据，我们预计这种干预措施将对降低目标州和其他南部州的伤害风险产生重大影响，并可推广到美国多个农村地区。该提案通过 NORA 农业、林业和渔业 (AgFF) 部门委员会的战略目标 2 - 弱势工人（老年农民子集），行动步骤 2.43 解决 HP 2020 职业安全与健康问题：“促进高质量和高安全性的开发和评估”存在差距的地方采用适当的材料”；目标#3：“通过发展伙伴关系和协作努力，将行之有效的健康和安全战略引入农业、林业和渔业工作场所”；目标#4：“减少涉及农业生产和支持活动危害的创伤性伤害和死亡的数量、发生率和严重程度”，目标#5：“通过减少职业原因或促进农业工人的健康和福祉急性和慢性疾病和疾病的因素”。它还涉及跨部门的工作组织、健康差异、创伤性伤害和压力相关疾病。具体目标是： 1. 与农场社区合作，开发和提供转化干预措施、教学读者剧场，以减少伤害并增强成年和老年农民及其家人的健康； 2. 测试农业健康/安全教学读本剧场对成年和老年农民及其家庭改变农耕行为的效果； 3. 随着时间的推移，加强农业社区和组织通过剧场和其他方法制定和提供有效的健康和安全干预措施的能力（可持续性）。