Roelofs Cora, Hansen Julia
From the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts.
J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Oct 1;65(10):e636-e639. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002929. Epub 2023 Jul 25.
In response to elevated risk factors, an opioid hazard awareness training for the sand, stone, and gravel mining sector was developed and embedded in annual safety training.
After positive results from a prior study among Massachusetts workers, a revised training was disseminated across the United States. Two hundred post-training surveys were obtained and compared with results from the Massachusetts cohort.
Participants' knowledge about opioid-based medications, confidence in talking to a doctor about opioids and/or to a coworker about their own use of opioids, and ability to refer struggling coworkers to resources improved. Massachusetts respondents had slightly more favorable responses. Both cohorts had strong positive views of the training.
These results highlight the feasibility and effectiveness of opioid hazard prevention training for a high-risk worker population.
针对风险因素升高的情况，为砂石和砾石开采行业开展了阿片类药物危害意识培训，并将其纳入年度安全培训。
在马萨诸塞州工人先前的一项研究取得积极成果后，修订后的培训在美国各地推广。收集了200份培训后调查问卷，并与马萨诸塞州队列的结果进行比较。
参与者对阿片类药物的知识、与医生谈论阿片类药物和/或与同事谈论自己使用阿片类药物的信心，以及将有困难的同事转介到相关资源的能力均有所提高。马萨诸塞州的受访者反应略为积极。两个队列对培训都有强烈的积极看法。
这些结果凸显了针对高风险工人群体进行阿片类药物危害预防培训的可行性和有效性。
