Latino Youth Agricultural Study

• Sponsor: University of Nebraska Lincoln (Other)
• Overall Status: Active, not recruiting
• CT.gov ID: NCT04298632
• Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (NIH)
• Enrollment: 120
• Location: 1
• Arms: 3
• Anticipated Duration (Months): 36
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 3.3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The goal of the project is to determine the effectiveness of each intervention in promoting increased knowledge and practice of pesticide safety behaviors.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Pesticide Safety	Behavioral: Safety Education Program	N/A

Detailed Description

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The intervention will be delivered to two different treatment groups: 1) adolescent only, adolescents receive the adapted adolescent version of La Familia Sana program and 2) family enhanced, adolescent and mother both receive the La Familia Sana program. In addition, there will be a control group where adolescent farmworkers will not be exposed to any pesticide safety program. Our project will:

1. Determine if a promotora-based intervention targeting pesticide safety in the workplace is effective in increasing knowledge about safety behaviors among Latino adolescents engaged in farm work.

2. Delineate variation by group among adolescents' knowledge about safety behaviors.

3. Delineate variation in adolescents' pesticide safety behaviors and neurological outcomes after intervention between all groups.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 120 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
• Masking: Single (Participant)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Reducing Pesticide Exposure Among Latino Adolescents Through a Promotora-based Intervention
• Actual Study Start Date: Sep 30, 2019
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jan 15, 2022
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Sep 29, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Youth-only Only the youth receives the education program	Behavioral: Safety Education Program; this is a pesticide safety education program
Experimental: Family enhanced A parent and the youth both receive the education program	Behavioral: Safety Education Program; this is a pesticide safety education program
No Intervention: Control neither parent, nor youth receives the education program

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. knowledge of pesticide safety behaviors [7 weeks]

   This outcome measure will be assessed by a series of nine questions asking adolescents "How do you believe that farmworkers can come in contact with pesticides while working?" Additionally, nine additional questions will be asked that assess "How do you believe that farmworkers can have contact with pesticides while at home?" All responses for these questions are "yes" or "no"

2. Self-protective behaviors [7 weeks]

   Self-protective behaviors will be assessed by items asking adolescents about their clothes wearing and handling and their hand washing behaviors. Items regarding clothes wearing and handling include self-reported frequency of removing shoes and clothes prior to entering their home and wearing the same clothes more than one day. Additionally, several questions ask about the frequency of wearing shorts, sandals, gloves, etc. Regarding hand washing behavior, adolescents will self-report their hand washing behaviors at pretest and posttest. These questions ask youth about the frequency in which they wash their hands prior to eating, drinking, chewing gum, using the restroom, touching co-workers, etc. All self-protective behavior questions have a response option of "never", "sometimes", "usually", and "always"

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Neurological functioning [7 weeks]

   Neurological functioning in the form of coordination and fine motor skills will be assessed by the finger tapper test. This measure focuses specifically on speed and is sensitive to the effects of neurotoxicants. The finger tapper test produces a mean score for both the participant's dominant and non-dominant hand as a result of a series of 10 second tapping exercises.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 Years to 21 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent self-identifies as Latino, Hispanic, or of Latin American heritage

• Adolescent is between the ages of 12-21

• Adolescent has been engaged (paid or unpaid) in farm work for at least 10 hours in he last 30 days

• Adolescent has a parent living with them

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal of youth to provide assent or parent to provide consent

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Oklahoma State University	Tulsa	Oklahoma	United States	74106

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Nebraska Lincoln
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: University of Nebraska Lincoln
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04298632
• Other Study ID Numbers: 20734; 2U54OH007541-16
• First Posted: Mar 6, 2020
• Last Update Posted: May 18, 2022
• Last Verified: May 1, 2022

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: Yes
• Plan to Share IPD: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Keywords provided by University of Nebraska Lincoln: Latino Youth

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 18, 2022