Occupational health literacy and work-related injury among U.S. adolescents.
Occupational health literacy and work-related injury among U.S. adolescents.
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美国青少年的职业健康素养和工伤。
DOI：
10.1080/17457300.2013.792288
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Myers,DouglasJ
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作者：
Rauscher,KimberlyJ;Myers,DouglasJ
基于美国使用的“健康素养”的概念，我们开发了一种专门针对工作场所安全的类似措施，标记为“职业健康素养”(OHL)，并调查了OHL是否是预防青少年工作相关伤害(WRI)的保护因素。利用美国五所高中2262名14至18岁学生的横断面调查数据，我们发现OHL(所接受的职业安全和健康(OSH)信息和培训的水平，以及对OSH信息和概念的知识和意识)与WRI的患病率呈正相关。这种联系似乎在很大程度上是由OHL关于受访者接受安全培训的子量表推动的，这可能代表工作危险，并可能压倒OHL对工伤的任何保护作用。这项探索性研究表明，更准确地测量OHL和混杂变量(工作危险性)将是进一步研究OHL-WRI关系的关键。
Building on the concept of ‘health literacy’ used in the US, we developed an analogous measure specific to safety in the workplace labeled ‘occupational health literacy’ (OHL) and investigated whether OHL is a protective factor against work-related injury (WRI) among adolescents. Using cross-sectional survey data from 2262 14 to 18-year olds in five high schools across the US, we found that OHL (level of occupational safety and health (OSH) information and training received combined with knowledge and awareness of OSH information and concepts) is positively associated with WRI prevalence. This association appears to be largely driven by the OHL subscale on respondents’ receipt of safety training, which likely represents job hazardousness and may be overwhelming any protective effect of OHL on work injury. This exploratory study has shown that more precise measurement of OHL and confounding variables (job hazardousness) will be crucial in further studies exploring a OHL–WRI relationship.