Farmworker and farmer perceptions of farmworker agricultural chemical exposure in North Carolina
Farmworker and farmer perceptions of farmworker agricultural chemical exposure in North Carolina
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DOI：
10.17730/humo.57.3.n26161776pgg7371
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发表时间：
1998-09-01
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Saavedra, RM
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作者：
Quandt, SA;Arcury, TA;Saavedra, RM
农业化学品对从事种植和收获作物的农场工人构成健康风险。在一个项目中，制定文化上适当的干预措施，以减少农业工人暴露于农业化学品，形成性研究采用深入访谈和焦点小组，以获取信念和知识，从农民和移民和季节性农场工人在北卡罗来纳州的暴露。农场工人担心他们归因于接触的急性影响，对低水平接触的长期影响知之甚少。他们认为，有些人天生比其他人更容易受到暴露的健康影响;大多数人不承认皮肤是化学吸收的场所。他们报告了反映与农民的权力关系的暴露实例，表明缺乏知识不是干预措施必须解决的唯一问题。农民认为农场工人没有接触结核病化学品，因为他们没有混合或应用化学品。这种信念与农民接受的培训是一致的。PRECEDE-PROCEED计划模型用于确定有效干预措施应关注的诱发因素和强化因素。
Agricultural chemicals pose health risks for farmworkers engaged in cultivating and harvesting crops. In a project to develop culturally appropriate interventions to reduce farmworker exposure to agricultural chemicals, formative research used in-depth interviews and focus groups to elicit beliefs and knowledge about exposure from farmers and migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina. Farmworkers were concerned about acute effects they attributed to exposure and had little knowledge of long-term effects of low-level exposure. They believe that some individuals are inherently more susceptibility to the health effects of exposure than others; most do not recognize the skin as a site of chemical absorption. They report instances of exposure that reflect the power relationships with farmers,indicating that lack of knowledge is not the only issue that must be addressed in an intervention. Farmers believe that farmworkers are not exposed tb chemicals because they do not mix or apply chemicals. Such a belief is consistent with the training received by farmers. The PRECEDE-PROCEED planning model is used to identify predisposing and reinforcing factors on which an effective intervention should focus.