Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2023 Jul;28(3):615-619. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2023.2169424. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
Community health workers (CHWs) have reported a paucity of farmworker-specific education materials for use during health outreach to farmworkers. To improve our understanding of the availability of topically and culturally relevant health education materials for farmworkers, we identified 15 key health topics to examine across four major online health information services: MedlinePlus.gov, Migrant Clinicians Network, National Agricultural Safety Database, and National Center for Farmworker Health. We established inter-coder reliability and conducted coding for health education materials by topic and identified the percentage of materials specifically designed for farmworkers. The availability of materials ranged from, on the low end, accessing clinic services, having one health education material total across all four online services, to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, having 50 materials across the four online services. Online health information services ranged from 0.6% of the materials designed specifically for farmworkers (MedlinePlus.gov) to 42.9% (Migrant Clinicians Network). The findings from this study underscore the need to support community-based projects centering CHWs' roles as advocates and facilitators to develop educational materials for farmworker health outreach.
社区卫生工作者（CHWs）报告称，在为农场工人提供健康服务时，缺乏针对农场工人的特定教育材料。为了更好地了解针对农场工人的具有针对性和文化相关性的健康教育材料的可用性，我们确定了 15 个主要健康主题，以检查四个主要在线健康信息服务：MedlinePlus.gov、移民临床医生网络、国家农业安全数据库和国家农场工人健康中心。我们建立了内部编码员可靠性，并按主题对健康教育材料进行了编码，并确定了专门为农场工人设计的材料的百分比。材料的可用性从低到高不等，包括访问诊所服务、四个在线服务中总共只有一个健康教育材料，以及酒精、烟草和其他药物，四个在线服务中有 50 个材料。在线健康信息服务的范围从专门为农场工人设计的材料的 0.6%（MedlinePlus.gov）到 42.9%（Migrant Clinicians Network）。这项研究的结果强调了支持以社区为基础的项目的必要性，这些项目以 CHWs 作为倡导者和促进者的角色为中心，为农场工人的健康外展开发教育材料。
