Pesticide safety among farmworkers: perceived risk and perceived control as factors reflecting environmental justice.
Pesticide safety among farmworkers: perceived risk and perceived control as factors reflecting environmental justice.
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农场工人之间的农药安全：被认为的风险和感知的控制是反映环境正义的因素。
DOI：
10.1289/ehp.02110s2233
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发表时间：
2002-04
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Russell, GB
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作者：
Arcury, TA;Quandt, SA;Russell, GB
美国的农场工人构成了一个面临严重环境和职业疾病和伤害风险的人群，以及通常与贫困相关的健康差距。农药是农场工人职业伤害和疾病的主要来源。为农场工人提供安全培训的努力尚未得到充分评价。本研究基于健康信念模型，考察了安全信息对农民工农药安全风险感知和控制的影响，以及风险感知和控制对农民工农药安全知识和安全行为的影响。数据基于1999年对北卡罗来纳州东部293名农场工人进行的访谈，这是北卡罗来纳州农场工人预防农业化学品暴露项目的一部分。知觉农药风险和知觉农药控制量表的访谈项目。分析的项目和规模表明，农场工人有相当高的水平，从农药的感知风险和农药安全的感知控制。接收有关农药安全的信息（例如，警告信号）降低了感知风险并增加了感知控制。农药暴露知识与感知风险密切相关。然而，感知风险与安全知识的关系有限，与安全行为无关。控制感与农药暴露知识无关，但与安全知识和安全行为密切相关。环境正义的一个关键原则是社区必须控制其环境。这些结果表明，农药安全教育是有效的，它必须解决的问题，农场工人控制在实施工作场所农药安全。
Farmworkers in the United States constitute a population at risk for serious environmental and occupational illness and injury as well as health disparities typically associated with poverty. Pesticides are a major source of occupational injury and illness to which farmworkers are exposed. Efforts to provide safety training for farmworkers have not been fully evaluated. Based on the Health Belief Model, this analysis examines how safety information affects perceived pesticide safety risk and control among farmworkers and how perceived risk and control affect farmworker knowledge and safety behavior. Data are based on interviews conducted in 1999 with 293 farmworkers in eastern North Carolina as part of the Preventing Agricultural Chemical Exposure in North Carolina Farmworkers' Project. Perceived pesticide risk and perceived pesticide control scales were developed from interview items. Analysis of the items and scales showed that farmworkers had fairly high levels of perceived risk from pesticides and perceived control of pesticide safety. Receiving information about pesticide safety (e.g., warning signs) reduced perceived risk and increased perceived control. Pesticide exposure knowledge was strongly related to perceived risk. However, perceived risk had a limited relationship to safety knowledge and was not related to safety behavior. Perceived control was not related to pesticide exposure knowledge, but was strongly related to safety knowledge and safety behavior. A key tenet of environmental justice is that communities must have control over their environment. These results argue that for pesticide safety education to be effective, it must address issues of farmworker control in implementing workplace pesticide safety.
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影响因子：
3.5
作者：
Arcury, TA;Quandt, SA;Russell, GB
通讯作者：
Russell, GB
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
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通讯作者：
Saavedra, R
影响因子：
1.7
作者：
BAER, RD;PENZELL, D
通讯作者：
PENZELL, D
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3.5
作者：
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通讯作者：
Arcury, TA
影响因子：
0.8
作者：
Quandt, SA;Arcury, TA;Saavedra, RM
通讯作者：
Saavedra, RM