CANCER PREVENTION FOR UNIONIZED BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：本研究响应于 迫切需要进行研究，以了解影响健康的风险观念 改变蓝领工人的行为， 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 在工作中可能会接触到高浓度的辐射以前的工作表明， 暴露于工作风险的工人最容易接受健康促进计划 包括职业健康问题，而不是仅仅关注 对个人生活方式的影响。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工作风险意识。 这项研究专门针对移动的蓝领工人--在这里由 建筑工人--对他们来说， 缺乏本研究的具体目的是：（1）评估的看法， 建筑工人的职业和行为风险 北大西洋公约组织国际联盟成员的全国随机抽样 美国（LIUNA）。(2)确定调解机制和修改条件 与风险认知有关，可能影响烟草使用， 移动的蓝领工人的水果和蔬菜消费。（三） 制定和评估综合癌症预防的有效性 针对工会移动的工作实践和行为风险的干预 蓝领工人增加戒烟和水果消费 和蔬菜.这项研究是DFCI和实验室之间的合作伙伴关系。 北美健康与安全基金。这种合作关系提供了独特的 接触大量的移动的蓝领工人， 750，000名LIUNA成员。LIUNA成员普遍识字能力低， 受教育程度和患癌症的高风险行为。四十四 10%的人是吸烟者。这也是一个种族多样的 少数民族人口至少占50%。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。

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.