The Effect of Participatory Heat Education on Agricultural Worker Knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Farmworkers disproportionately experience preventable adverse health effects from heat exposure. We sought to evaluate the effect of participatory heat education on farmworker knowledge.

Methods

We conducted a parallel, comparison group intervention study to investigate the effectiveness of a Spanish/English participatory, culturally-tailored, heat education-based intervention on farmworker heat knowledge in the Summer 2019. We used convenience sampling to recruit adult outdoor farmworkers from Central/Eastern Washington State, USA. Crews were randomized to receive the intervention (n = 40 participants) versus not receive the intervention (n = 43 participants). We assessed changes in heat knowledge, scored on a scale from 0 to 11, between baseline, immediate post-

SUBMITTER: Marquez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9573936 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature