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Filter by:Brief Summary: Purpose: This clinical trial aims to investigate the effect of educational interventions (HeBSaPU) based on the Health Belief Model on safe pesticide use and biomarkers among greenhouse agricultural workers. The main questions it aims to answer are; 1. Compared to the control group, HeBSaPU affects safe pesticide use practices in greenhouse agricultural workers. 2. Compared to the control group, HeBSaPU affects safe pesticide use health beliefs in greenhouse agricultural workers. 3. Compared to the control group, HeBSaPU affects pesticide exposure determined by urine samples in greenhouse agricultural workers. Participants took educational interventions based on Health Belief Model (HBM) sub-dimensions; including educational posters, free personal protective equipment (PPE) incentives, short reminder messages, and demonstration components about correct PPE usage.
Background: Electrosurgery is used in almost all surgeries. The entire surgical team working in these operating rooms is exposed to surgical smoke. In the literature, there is no study examining the direct effect of surgical smoke on operating room staff and involving the entire surgical team in sampling. Materials and Methods: This experimental-type study was conducted in the operating room of the Department of General Surgery of a University Hospital. In the study, the surgeries were completed with standard practice and four different protective measures that could affect surgical smoke exposure. Blood and urine samples were collected from the surgical team before and after the surgery. Consequently, 70 blood and 70 urine samples were collected. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to compare pre- and post-operative analyses.
The main objective of the BALISTIC research program is to characterize COPD related to organic particles (of which the model is agricultural COPD) in comparison with tobacco-related COPD, at the clinical, functional (at rest and exercise), inflammatory and physiopathological level. The cross-sectional step BALISTIC 1 made it possible to include 400 patients between 2011 and 2015, and to identify approximately 100 dairy farmers COPD and 100 non-dairy farmers COPD (tobacco COPD). Preliminary results, as well as those of an ancillary study that included a group of subjects exposed to mineral dust and fumes, suggest that agricultural COPD is a predominantly non-emphysematous or essentially bronchial disease with IgE-mediated allergic mechanisms. The current project BALISTIC 2 proposes to conduct a comparative study at + 6 years on average of the two groups of COPD subjects identified in BALISTIC 1 in order to specify the phenotype of COPD in dairy farmers by, in particular, the study of the rate of decline of resting and exercise respiratory function parameters, its computed tomography presentation and its genetic and epigenetic profile. The prospects of this work are to improve the management of COPD in any cause by setting up preventive and curative therapeutic approaches in order to provide answers to the progression of a disease that makes part of the few major public health problems of the 21st century.