与中央各州个人防护设备使用率相关的因素:通用化多层次多项式模型
Jianghu James Dong1, Carter Vogel1, Yi Du2
1Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
Journal of agromedicine
|September 30, 2024
概括
老年和兼职农业与美国农业生产者中个人防护设备 (PPE) 使用率较低有关. 针对这些群体的有针对性的干预措施可以提高安全性,减少农业中的健康风险.
科学领域:
- 农业安全与健康 农业安全与健康
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 个人防护设备 (PPE) 对于减轻农业中的健康危害至关重要.
- 了解影响个人防护设备使用的因素对于制定有效的安全干预措施至关重要.
- 之前的研究已经强调了在不同农业环境中采用个人防护设备的不同程度.
研究的目的:
- 确定与美国农业生产者中较低的个人防护设备 (化学,呼吸,听力) 使用相关的人口和农场相关因素.
- 探索个人防护设备使用与自我报告的职业伤害和疾病之间的关系.
- 为提高农业工人安全提供有针对性的干预信息.
主要方法:
- 使用2018年和2020年农业安全和健康调查数据,使用了通用化的多层多项物流回归.
- 模型考虑了层次数据结构 (调查年,居住状态) 并使用自适应方程进行估计.
- 多重归算解决了在等级框架内缺少的数据.
主要成果:
- 高龄与所有保护类型的个人防护设备使用减少有关.
- 与女性相比,男性生产者报告使用化学和呼吸道保护的比例更高.
- 只有谷物农场的生产者和那些花费较少时间在农场活动上的生产者表现出不同的个人防护设备使用模式.
结论:
- 在特定的农业生产者群体 (老年人,女性,兼职,只有畜牧业的农场) 中,个人防护设备的低使用需要有针对性的干预措施.
- 识别高风险群体可以制定定制策略,以加强个人防护设备的采用.
- 改善个人防护设备的使用对于减少农业部门的健康危险和伤害至关重要.
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