1. Health disorders related to learning the welding trade: assessment of approaches to risk communication.
- Author
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Bonow CA, Cezar-Vaz MR, Silva LR, Rocha LP, and Turik C
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Communication, Controlled Before-After Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Occupational Health Nursing, Risk Assessment, Social Environment, Young Adult, Occupational Diseases epidemiology, Occupational Diseases etiology, Self Report, Welding
- Abstract
Objective: to assess the identification of health disorders as self-reported by apprentices of welding and to analyze the strength of the relationship between age and time of experience with self-reported health disorders before and after a socio-environmental nursing intervention., Method: this quasi-experimental, non-randomized, before-and-after study was conducted with 86 welding apprentices from a private entity., Results: the results show a significant difference for the pre- and post-test means and an increase in the post-test mean score for the cardiovascular, respiratory and cutaneous systems. There was also a negative correlation between the apprentices' ages and the identification of health disorders., Conclusion: the socio-environmental nursing intervention enabled obtaining information on health disorders related to welding. In turn, such information enabled the apprentices to assess information and self-report health disorders.
- Published
- 2014
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