SSW Works: A Virtual Learning Environment for Occupational Skin Cancer Prevention

SSW Works：职业性皮肤癌预防的虚拟学习环境

• 批准号: 10324860
• 负责人: Mary K Buller
• 金额: $ 26.3万
• 依托单位: KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10324860
• 关键词: Adopted; Adult; African American; Algorithms; American; Asbestos; Attention; Attitude; Benzene; Carcinogens; Cessation of life; Communities; Control Groups; Databases; Development; Diagnosis; Diffusion of Innovation; E-learning; Education; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Employee; Enrollment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Exposure to; Focus Groups; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Care Costs; Hispanic Americans; Human Resources; Industry; Institutes; International; Intervention; Learning; Literature; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Names; National Cancer Institute; Occupational; Occupations; Phase; Policies; Prevention Research; Principal Investigator; Process; Production; Protocols documentation; Publishing; Quality of life; Randomized Controlled Trials; Readiness; Recreation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Safety; Schools; Skin Cancer; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Staging; Students; Surgeon; System; Technology; Testing; The Sun; Training; Treatment Cost; Ultraviolet Rays; United States; Update; Vendor; Vinyl Chloride; Work; Workplace; base; educational atmosphere; effectiveness testing; evidence base; high risk; implementation strategy; improved; innovation; keratinocyte; melanoma; primary outcome; programs; prototype; randomized trial; safety education; safety practice; school district; skin cancer prevention; sun protection; sun safety; theories; usability; vector

Americans who work outdoors are exposed to an extreme amount of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) over a lifetime that substantially increases their risk for developing skin cancer. Annually, skin cancer is diagnosed in over 3.5 million U.S. adults, melanoma kills nearly 7,000 Americans, and treatment costs at least $8 billion. The U.S. Surgeon General has identified occupational sun safety as a national priority. Our team has spent the past two decades developing a successful comprehensive approach to occupational sun protection in 5 trials funded largely by the National Cancer Institute. Sun Safe Workplaces (SSW) combines policy and education to increase workplace actions on sun safety and employee sun protection practices. In this SBIR Fast-Track application, we will develop a virtual learning environment (VLE), SSW Works, to distribute the SSW program to American workplaces. It will be comprised of a database, content management (interactive toolbox), and media platform (trackable training) that tailors the SSW program to management's readiness to innovate on sun safety based Diffusion of Innovations Theory. SSW Works will better integrate SSW into safety training by improving appropriateness for Hispanic and African American workers and conforming with the latest learning management systems technology (LMS). Strong scientific premise comes from the published literature and our 5 previous studies that demonstrated SSW is feasible and effective in public works, public safety, and outdoor recreation workplaces. The Phase I specific aims will establish the feasibility of SSW Works by 1) creating and validating an algorithm to tailor resources and implementation strategies to employers' stages in the diffusion of innovations process; 2) identifying unique attitudes, barriers, and practices related to sun safety among Hispanic and African American employees in focus group discussion and adjusting the SSW content; and 3) creating a prototype of the SSW Works VLE, including inputs, staging algorithm and tailored report, employee training compatible with a popular LMS, and storyboards of brief videos for managers and employees and testing it for feasibility and usability with managers and Hispanic and African American outdoor workers, and confirming that the training can operate within a popular LMS. In Phase II, SSW Works will be fully programmed and tested for effectiveness by achieving the specific aims of: 1) producing the full SSW Works, in English and Spanish, for distribution of the evidence-based SSW and 2) conducting a randomized controlled trial with 20 workplaces evaluating impact of SSW distributed over the SSW Works on employees' sun safety practices (primary outcome). The primary hypothesis is: compared to employers in the minimal information control group, employers assigned to receive SSW Works will have employees that practice more sun protection at posttest. The SBIR Fast-Track research is significant and innovative. SSW Works will have high impact and commercial potential because outdoor workforce is large and at very high risk for skin cancer, improving sun safety will reduce health care costs and save lives, and there are few commercial competitors.

在户外工作的美国人会暴露在极大量的太阳紫外线辐射(UV)下 这大大增加了他们患皮肤癌的风险。每年，皮肤癌被诊断为 超过350万美国成年人，黑色素瘤导致近7000美国人死亡，治疗费用至少为80亿美元。 美国卫生局局长已将职业防晒安全列为国家优先事项。我们队已经花了整整一个小时 在过去的20年里，在5次试验中成功地开发了一种全面的职业性防晒方法 资金主要由国家癌症研究所提供。太阳安全工作场所(SSW)将政策和教育相结合，以 加强工作场所的防晒安全和员工防晒措施。在此SBIR快速通道中 应用程序，我们将开发一个虚拟学习环境(VLE)，SSW Works，来分发SSW程序 到美国的工作场所。它将由一个数据库、内容管理(交互式工具箱)和 媒体平台(可跟踪培训)，根据管理层的创新准备情况定制SSW计划 基于太阳安全的创新扩散理论。SSW工厂将通过以下方式更好地将SSW融入安全培训 提高西班牙裔和非裔美国工人的适当性，并与最新学习保持一致 管理系统技术(LMS)。强有力的科学前提来自于出版的文献和我们的 5以前的研究表明，SSW在公共工程、公共安全和户外领域是可行和有效的 娱乐场所。第一阶段具体目标将通过以下方式确定SSW工作的可行性：1)创建和 验证算法以根据雇主在扩散过程中的阶段调整资源和实施策略 创新过程；2)确定与日光安全相关的独特态度、障碍和做法 西班牙裔和非裔美国员工在焦点小组讨论和调整SSW内容；以及3) 创建SSW Works VLE的原型，包括输入、分段算法和定制报告、员工 与流行的LMS兼容的培训，以及为经理和员工提供的简短视频的故事板 在经理、西班牙裔和非裔美国户外工作者中测试它的可行性和可用性，以及 确认培训可以在流行的LMS内运行。在第二阶段，SSW工程将全面完成 通过实现以下具体目标来规划和测试有效性：1)制作完整的SSW作品， 英语和西班牙语，用于循证SSW的分发和2)进行随机对照 评价分布在SSW作业中的SSW对员工日晒安全影响的20个工作场所试验 实践(主要成果)。主要的假设是：与雇主相比，信息最少 对照组，分配到SSW工作的雇主将有更多的员工练习太阳 后测时的保护。SBIR快车道研究具有重要意义和创新性。SSW作品会有很高的 影响和商业潜力因为户外工作人员很多，患皮肤癌的风险很高， 提高日光安全将降低医疗成本，拯救生命，商业竞争对手寥寥无几。