This article presents a brief summar?, of the natiire and extent of intervention research being conducted in the aren of occupational safe5 and health. Articles were classijed either us engineering, administrcrtive, or behavioral, accordilig to the tjpe(s) of interventions that were evuluated. Findi
Methodologic issues in intervention research—health care
✍ Scribed by James C. Hersey; James W. Collins; Robyn Gershon; Bernice Owen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 560 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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✦ Synopsis
To better understand the methodological challenges faced by intervention research in health care, workshops reviewed two intervention studies to reduce back injuries among nursing home staff and two studies 011 the use of precautions to prevent occupational transmission of bloodborne pathogens. These studies adapted rigorous designs to real-world settings and made good use of multiple measures to detect effects and communicate this itzformation to policy makers. The studies grappled with issurs about implementation integrity and would benefit from better theon, of administrative practices associated with a safety-conscious work environment. 0 I996 Wilev-Liss. Inr.
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