Pesticide Training for Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers

摘要

This project was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of commonly used pesticide safety training materials with migrant adolescent farm workers. Most migrant farm workers are poorly educated and do not speak English as a primary language. While materials are available to train farm workers on pesticide safety, few of the training methods have been evaluated with non-English speaking populations and no studies have addressed the effectiveness of agriculture health and safety training with adolescent migrant farm workers. The purposes of the project was to determine if cultural, developmental, and age-related factors are associated with the adolescent's knowledge and beliefs of pesticide hazards and safety precautions and to what extent these factors influence the effectiveness of pesticide safety training. Specifically, the project compared (1) the effectiveness of video methods of training and more interactive 'flipchart' approaches to training; (2) the effectiveness of training delivered in the context of an educational program versus traditional methods of grower initiated training; (3) the effectiveness of traditional methods of delivering the training (audio-visual materials, training packets) when compared to an individualized computer-assisted approach.