CANCER PREVENTION FOR UNIONIZED BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

工会蓝领工人的癌症预防

• 批准号: 6642168
• 负责人: Glorian C Sorensen
• 金额: $ 53.3万
• 依托单位: DANA-FARBER CANCER INST
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6642168
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; cancer prevention; clinical research; dietary fiber; disease /disorder proneness /risk; fruit; health behavior; human subject; nutrition related tag; occupational health /safety; smoking cessation; vegetables

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): This study responds to an urgent need for research to understand risk perceptions influencing health behavior change among blue-collar workers and to develop efficacious interventions for this group. Concern about occupational exposures is likely to influence the risk perceptions of many blue collar workers, given their potentially high levels of exposures on the job. Previous work has shown that workers exposed to job risks are most receptive to health promotion programs that incorporate occupational health concerns, rather than exclusively focusing on individual lifestyles. The intervention tested in the proposed study targets tobacco use, consumption of fruits and vegetables, and awareness of job risks. This study specifically targets mobile blue collar workers--represented here by construction laborers--for whom cancer prevention strategies are especially lacking. The specific aims of this study are to: (1) Assess the perceptions of job and behavioral risks of construction laborers through a survey of a national random sample of members of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). (2) Identify mediating mechanisms and modifying conditions associated with risk perceptions and likely to influence tobacco use and consumption of fruits and vegetables among mobile blue-collar workers. (3) Develop and estimate the efficacy of an integrated cancer prevention intervention targeting work practices and behavioral risks of unionized mobile blue collar workers in increasing smoking cessation and consumption of fruits and vegetables. This study is a partnership between the DFCI and the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America. This partnership provides unique access to a large population of mobile blue-collar workers, comprised of the 750,000 members of LIUNA. LIUNA members have generally low literacy skills, low levels of education, and high levels of behavioral risks for cancer. Forty-four percent of LIUNA members are smokers. This is also an ethnically diverse population, and includes at least 50% minority populations. This study is a Phase II methods development study designed to provide the basis for further research on cancer prevention interventions in collaboration with unions.

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：这项研究回应了一项 迫切需要研究以了解影响健康的风险认知 蓝领员工的行为改变与有效开发 对这一群体的干预。对职业暴露的担忧可能会 影响许多蓝领工人的风险认知，因为他们 工作中潜在的高暴露水平。先前的研究表明， 面临工作风险的员工最乐于接受健康促进计划 将职业健康问题纳入其中，而不是仅仅专注于 关于个人的生活方式。在拟议研究目标中测试的干预措施 烟草使用、水果和蔬菜消费以及对工作风险的认识。 这项研究专门针对流动的蓝领工人--这里以 建筑工人--癌症预防策略对他们来说尤其重要 缺乏。这项研究的具体目的是：(1)评估人们对 建筑工人职业和行为风险的调查研究 全国随机抽样调查北方劳工国际联盟成员 美国(LIUNA)。(2)确定调解机制和修改条件 与风险认知相关，并可能影响烟草使用和 流动蓝领工人的水果和蔬菜消费。(3) 开发和评估综合癌症预防的效果 针对工会流动人口工作行为和行为风险的干预措施 蓝领工人增加戒烟和水果消费 还有蔬菜。这项研究是DFCI和劳工协会之间的合作项目 北美健康与安全基金。这一合作伙伴关系提供了独特的 接触到大量流动的蓝领工人，包括 LIUNA的75万名成员。LIUNA成员普遍识字能力低， 教育水平，以及患癌症的高水平行为风险。四十四岁 10%的LIUNA成员是吸烟者。这也是一个种族多元化的 人口，包括至少50%的少数民族人口。本研究是一项 第二阶段方法开发研究，旨在为进一步 与工会合作开展癌症预防干预研究。

项目成果

Tools for health: the efficacy of a tailored intervention targeted for construction laborers.

健康工具：针对建筑工人的量身定制干预措施的功效。

• DOI: 10.1007/s10552-006-0076-9
• 发表时间: 2007
• 期刊: Cancer causes & control : CCC
• 作者: Sorensen,Glorian;Barbeau,ElizabethM;Stoddard,AnneM;Hunt,MaryKay;Goldman,Roberta;Smith,Ann;Brennan,AngelaA;Wallace,Lorraine
• 通讯作者: Wallace,Lorraine