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NCT Number: NCT04298632

Latino Youth Agricultural Study

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The goal of the project is to determine the effectiveness of each intervention in promoting increased knowledge and practice of pesticide safety behaviors.

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Key information

Conditions

Pesticide Safety

Age range

12 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Oklahoma State University

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74106, United States

About this study

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The intervention will be delivered to two different treatment groups: 1) adolescent only, adolescents receive the adapted adolescent version of La Familia Sana program and 2) family enhanced, adolescent and mother both receive the La Familia Sana program. In addition, there will be a control group where adolescent farmworkers will not be exposed to any pesticide safety program. Our project will:

  • Determine if a promotora-based intervention targeting pesticide safety in the workplace is effective in increasing knowledge about safety behaviors among Latino adolescents engaged in farm work.
  • Delineate variation by group among adolescents' knowledge about safety behaviors.
  • Delineate variation in adolescents' pesticide safety behaviors and neurological outcomes after intervention between all groups.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adolescent self-identifies as Latino, Hispanic, or of Latin American heritage
  • Adolescent is between the ages of 12-21
  • Adolescent has been engaged (paid or unpaid) in farm work for at least 10 hours in he last 30 days
  • Adolescent has a parent living with them

Exclusion criteria

  • Refusal of youth to provide assent or parent to provide consent

Treatment and study plan

Safety Education Program

Behavioral

this is a pesticide safety education program

Primary outcomes

  1. knowledge of pesticide safety behaviors

    Time frame: 7 weeks

    This outcome measure will be assessed by a series of nine questions asking adolescents "How do you believe that farmworkers can come in contact with pesticides while working?" Additionally, nine additional questions will be asked that assess "How do you believe that farmworkers can have contact with pesticides while at home?" All responses for these questions are "yes" or "no"

  2. Self-protective behaviors

    Time frame: 7 weeks

    Self-protective behaviors will be assessed by items asking adolescents about their clothes wearing and handling and their hand washing behaviors. Items regarding clothes wearing and handling include self-reported frequency of removing shoes and clothes prior to entering their home and wearing the same clothes more than one day. Additionally, several questions ask about the frequency of wearing shorts, sandals, gloves, etc. Regarding hand washing behavior, adolescents will self-report their hand washing behaviors at pretest and posttest. These questions ask youth about the frequency in which they wash their hands prior to eating, drinking, chewing gum, using the restroom, touching co-workers, etc. All self-protective behavior questions have a response option of "never", "sometimes", "usually", and "always"

Secondary outcomes

  1. Neurological functioning

    Time frame: 7 weeks

    Neurological functioning in the form of coordination and fine motor skills will be assessed by the finger tapper test. This measure focuses specifically on speed and is sensitive to the effects of neurotoxicants. The finger tapper test produces a mean score for both the participant's dominant and non-dominant hand as a result of a series of 10 second tapping exercises.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Nebraska Lincoln

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Registry information

Official study title

Reducing Pesticide Exposure Among Latino Adolescents Through a Promotora-based Intervention

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2022
Study completion
2022
First posted
Mar 6, 2020
Registry last updated
Dec 19, 2022

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