Prevention Program to Reduce Injury Disparities Among Latino Day Laborers

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Work-related Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Interview (MI); Behavioral: Control Condition; Behavioral: Participatory Group Activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04378348

HSC-SPH-12-0818

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to Identify intervention priorities using a corner-based needs assessment to document occupational and psychosocial risk and protective factors that increase Latino day laborers(LDL) risk for injury and to design a culturally responsive and context appropriate Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 10-based safety intervention that also addresses psychosocial risks to reduce LDL injuries and collaboratively pilot a corner-level intervention and conduct an evaluation to assess the safety program's feasibility and acceptability as determined by the extent to which we can recruit, retain and follow-up LDL over the course of the study.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Latino
• identified at a "corner" located in the Houston metropolitan area
• currently looking for work at a corner

Exclusion criteria

• not of Hispanic/Latino background
• being unable to participate in the survey due to alcohol or drug use impairment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Motivational Interview

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interview (MI)

Participatory Group Activity

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Participatory Group Activity

Control Condition

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control Condition