Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Design and Initiate a Study on Immigrant Worker Health and Safety in San Francisco's Chinatown Restaurants
Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Design and Initiate a Study on Immigrant Worker Health and Safety in San Francisco's Chinatown Restaurants
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DOI：
10.1002/ajim.20791
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发表时间：
2010-04-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Krause, Niklas
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作者：
Minkler, Meredith;Lee, Pam Tau;Krause, Niklas
在美国，餐馆工人的职业病和工伤率是最高的，但人们对中国移民餐馆工人的工作条件和职业健康状况知之甚少。方法采用社区参与式研究（CBPR）对旧金山唐人街餐馆工作条件和工人健康状况进行调查。成立了一个社区/学术/卫生部门合作组织，对23名餐馆工作人员进行了研究技术和工人健康与安全方面的培训。一个工人调查工具和餐馆观察清单合作开发。这份清单在71家唐人街餐厅试用，433名餐厅员工参与了问卷调查。结果餐厅员工与其他合作伙伴一起对调查和检查表工具的构建做出了实质性贡献，并提高了他们的文化适应性。演示了检查表工具在餐馆级数据收集中的实用性。结论CBPR对研究移民中餐馆工人的健康和安全以及开发适合文化的研究工具都有希望。一份新的观察清单也有可能用于餐馆层面的工人健康和安全条件数据收集。点。中华医学杂志，2010,33(3):361-371。(C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc。
Background Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but little is known about the working conditions and occupational health status of Chinese immigrant restaurant workers.Methods Community-based participatory research (CBPR) was employed to study restaurant working conditions and worker health in San Francisco's Chinatown. A community/academic/health department collaborative was formed and 23 restaurant workers trained on research techniques and worker health and safety. A worker survey instrument and a restaurant observational checklist were collaboratively developed. The checklist was piloted in 71 Chinatown restaurants, and the questionnaire administered to 433 restaurant workers.Results Restaurant workers, together with other partners, made substantial contributions to construction of the survey and checklist tools and improved their cultural appropriateness. The utility of the checklist tool for restaurant-level data collection was demonstrated.Conclusions CBPR holds promise for both studying worker health and safety among immigrant Chinese restaurant workers and developing culturally appropriate research tools. A new observational checklist also has potential for restaurant-level data collection on worker health and safety conditions. Am. J. Ind. Med. 53:361-371, 2010. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.