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Methodological issues for intervention research in occupational health and safety

✍ Scribed by Linda M. Goldenhar; Paul A. Schulte

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
540 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-3586

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✦ Synopsis

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. Findings suggest that many of the intervention studies conducted lacked a theoretical busis, used small samples, and tested interventions lucking the intensity to cause the desired change. Most stud11 designs were either nonexperimental or quasi-experimerital. Recommendutions f o r conducting .future research are presented. @ 19% W I I ~~

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