Department of Family & Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2019 Jun;21(3):515-521. doi: 10.1007/s10903-018-0771-0.
Latino farmworkers are exposed to a number of carcinogens in the workplace. Cancer survival rates for Latinos are below average. This paper describes Mexican immigrant farmworkers' knowledge of colorectal, breast, and testicular cancer, and compares farmworkers' cancer knowledge to that of other Mexican immigrants. Survey interviews for this study were conducted with 100 farmworkers and 100 non-farmworkers in 2015 in North Carolina as part of an ongoing community-based participatory research project. We found low to moderate levels of knowledge about colorectal, breast, and testicular cancer among farmworkers. Compared to non-farmworkers, farmworkers had similar levels of knowledge about breast and testicular cancer, but slightly lower knowledge about colorectal cancer (p = 0.0087). Few studies have used quantitative methods to assess farmworkers' knowledge of specific types of cancer. Our results demonstrate a need for increased dissemination of existing cancer education programs and further research to develop additional educational tools.
拉丁裔农场工人在工作场所接触到许多致癌物质。拉丁裔的癌症存活率低于平均水平。本文描述了墨西哥移民农场工人对结直肠癌、乳腺癌和睾丸癌的认识，并将农场工人的癌症知识与其他墨西哥移民进行了比较。本研究的调查访谈于 2015 年在北卡罗来纳州进行，共有 100 名农场工人和 100 名非农场工人参加，这是一个正在进行的基于社区的参与式研究项目的一部分。我们发现，农场工人对结直肠癌、乳腺癌和睾丸癌的了解程度较低，处于中等水平。与非农场工人相比，农场工人对乳腺癌和睾丸癌的了解程度相似，但对结直肠癌的了解程度略低（p=0.0087）。很少有研究使用定量方法评估农场工人对特定类型癌症的了解程度。我们的结果表明，需要增加现有癌症教育计划的传播，并进一步研究开发额外的教育工具。
