A Survey of Occupational Health Professionals' Preventive Pulmonary Practices and Worksite Environments: Development and Initial Findings

This article describes the development of a worksite survey to evalua a continuing medical education (CME) program to improve preventive pulmonary practices and worksite environments of occupational physicians and nurses, and baseline findings from the survey. The two-part instrument assessed indivi...

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Published in:Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 1995-06, Vol.37 (6), p.681-689
Main Authors: Hewitt, Anne M., Glanz, Karen, Fiel, Stanley B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Education, Continuing
Humans
Lung Diseases - etiology
Lung Diseases - prevention & control
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Occupational Health
Occupational Medicine - education
Occupational Medicine - standards
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reproducibility of Results
Smoking - adverse effects
Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
Workplace - standards
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Summary:This article describes the development of a worksite survey to evalua a continuing medical education (CME) program to improve preventive pulmonary practices and worksite environments of occupational physicians and nurses, and baseline findings from the survey. The two-part instrument assessed individual counseling practices for preventing lun disease and worksite environments. Eighty-one occupational physicians and nurses completed the survey before the CME program. Reliability coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) were calculated for five test subsection smoking counseling (.72), workplace hazards (.70), environmental programs (.78), workplace environment (.94), and smoking policies (.91). Baseline findings indicated that 80% of respondents reported that their employees/patients were exposed to various workplace hazar This instrument can be used to evaluate occupational health professionals' performance and worksite environments and may be useful for evaluating change over time or following a training program for occupational health professionals.
ISSN:1076-2752
1536-5948
DOI:10.1097/00043764-199506000-00009