Impact of a workplace peer-focused substance abuse prevention and early intervention program
Rebecca S Spicer1, Ted R Miller
1Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland 20705, USA.
Background:
PeerCare is a workplace peer intervention program that focuses on changing workplace attitudes toward on-the-job substance use and trains workers to recognize, intervene with, and refer coworkers who have a problem.
Methods:
Monthly injuries at the study company (January 1983 through June 1996) were compared to counts at four other companies in the same industry. Using these panel data, fixed-effects negative binomial regression measured the association of the percentage of the workforce covered by PeerCare with the workplace injury rate.
Results:
For every 1% increase in the workforce covered with PeerCare, the risk of injury declined by 0.9984 (95% confidence interval, 0.9975-0.9994). These findings suggest that, by June 1996, when 86% of the workforce was covered under PeerCare, the program had reduced injury rates by an average 14% per month.
Conclusions:
The findings support the implementation of peer intervention programs as a means to reduce workplace injuries.
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