Regional Epidemiology Unit, ASL TO3, Piedmont Region, Via Sabaudia 164, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy.
Environmental Epidemiological Unit, Regional Environmental Protection Agency, Piedmont Region, Via Pio VII 9, 10135 Turin, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 26;18(17):9003. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179003.
When the Turin incinerator went into operation in 2013, it was accompanied by surveillance of health effects that included a human biomonitoring survey of 394 residents. They responded to items investigating their awareness of environmental and health issues and perception of environmental health risks. In this study, we compared the questionnaire responses before plant startup and at 3 years of operation. To accomplish this, we investigated changes in perceived risk and evaluated the efficacy of communication strategies. A total of 344 participants equally distributed in an exposed and an unexposed group responded to the follow-up questionnaire. Survey items investigated the perception of a relationship between illness and exposure to environmental pollution, feeling at risk of developing an illness, and concern about natural and anthropogenic hazards. The proportion of 'certain' and 'very probable' responses was compared to the total using the difference-in-differences method. Analyses showed an overall decrease in the differences between the two groups, which suggests that the communication actions undertaken for the exposed group were effective. Future communication plans should also include initiatives targeting the unexposed group.
当都灵焚化炉于 2013 年投入使用时，伴随着对健康影响的监测，其中包括对 394 名居民进行的人体生物监测调查。他们回答了一些调查他们对环境和健康问题的认识以及对环境健康风险的看法的项目。在这项研究中，我们比较了工厂启动前和运行 3 年后的问卷调查结果。为了实现这一目标，我们研究了感知风险的变化，并评估了沟通策略的效果。共有 344 名参与者平均分配在暴露组和非暴露组中，他们对后续问卷做出了回应。调查项目调查了对疾病与暴露于环境污染之间关系的看法、患病风险的感受以及对自然和人为危害的关注。使用差异中的差异方法比较了“确定”和“非常可能”的回答比例与总数的差异。分析表明，两组之间的差异总体上有所减少，这表明针对暴露组采取的沟通措施是有效的。未来的沟通计划还应包括针对未暴露组的举措。
