Methods to improve the translation of evidence-based interventions: A primer on dissemination and implementation science for occupational safety and health researchers and practitioners

Guerin, Rebecca J.; Glasgow, Russell E.; Tyler, Amy; Rabin, Borsika; Huebschmann, Amy G.

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105763

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“…Given the importance of small businesses to the US economy, it is critical that they have the resources and capacity to implement mitigation strategies to protect their employees. More implementation research is needed [33,34] to shed light on the barriers and facilitators to small business employer's adoption of various mitigation strategies to protect workers, including cost and resource constraints [25][26][27][28][29][30]. Moreover, future research should explore employee mental health and well-being impacts and implications related to employers' implementation of robust disease prevention measures during public health emergencies [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021

Guerin

Barile

Groenewold

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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COVID-19 workplace mitigation strategies implemented within US businesses have been effective at preventing disease and protecting workers, but the extent of their use is not well understood. We examined reported COVID-19 workplace mitigation strategies by business size, geographic region, and industry using internet panel survey data from US adult respondents working full- or part-time outside the home (fall 2020, N = 1168) andfull- or part-time, inside or outside the home (fall 2021, N = 1778). We used chi-square tests to assess the differences in the strategies used (e.g., masking and COVID-19 screening) and ANOVA tests to examine the group differences on a mitigation strategies summative score. Fewer COVID-19 mitigation strategies were reported by respondents in fall 2021 (compared to fall 2020) across businesses of different sizes and regions. The participants in microbusinesses (1–10 employees) reported significantly (p < 0.05) lower mitigation scores than all other business sizes, and the respondents in these businesses were significantly less likely (p < 0.05) to have paid leave than those in enterprises with >10 employees. The healthcare and education sectors had the highest reported mean score of COVID-19 workplace mitigation strategies. Small and essential businesses are critical to the US economy. Insight is needed on their use of mitigation strategies to protect workers during the current and future pandemics.

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COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021

Guerin

Barile

Groenewold

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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“…Collaborations between these academic institutions are encouraged to help characterize how rurality circumscribes work‐related benefits, risks, and outcomes and identify promising interventions. The field of implementation science, which is the systematic investigation of the use of strategies to enhance adoption, integration, and sustainment of evidence‐based health interventions in clinical and community settings, could be especially useful in this collaborative effort 74 . Interventions that have not been evaluated in rural contexts may not effectively improve rural outcomes, requiring dedicated adaptation or, preferably, rural perspectives from the early stages of intervention design.…”

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Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action

Scott,

Elliott,

Lincoln

et al. 2023

The Journal of Rural Health

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occupational health, occupational health services, rural health, rural health services, social determinants of health A recent article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1 describes the Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction (FOG) database-an industryspecific database created to help researchers understand patterns of deaths among US oil and gas extraction (OGE) workers. Among other strengths, the database includes detailed geographic data on fatal incidents-a feature lacking in other systems that track workplace fatalities. It is clear that the majority of OGE worker fatalities occurred in rural micropolitan and noncore counties (Figure 1). This finding may not be surprising to people in the industry. However, it does raise questions about relationships between work, health, and rurality that are rarely explored explicitly or systematically.The uneven allocation of social and structural determinants of health (SDOH) across geographic space accounts for disparities in health outcomes among people living in urban and rural areas. 3 Employment is an SDOH that can impact health through working conditions, access to income, health insurance, a sense of meaning, and quality housing. [4][5][6][7][8][9]

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“…Implementation research is the study of this process (12). Important translational research questions include what prompts employers to consider the uptake of, and implementation into routine practice and use of such guidance, and what are the key barriers and facilitators to the use of those interventions across diverse workplace settings with different resources (14). D&I science inquiry addresses what works, for who, how, why, in what settings, and how it is sustained over time (34).…”

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“…OSH interventions (such as those represented in Table 2) may be situated anywhere along the research continuum, and, in reality, do not necessarily pass through all the T stages. In the context of OSH research (and beyond), there is a dearth of research conducted in the T 3 and T 4 stages of the research continuum (14).…”

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Applying Translational Science Approaches to Protect Workers Exposed to Nanomaterials

Schulte

Guerin²,

Cunningham³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Like nanotechnology, translational science is a relatively new and transdisciplinary field. Translational science in occupational safety and health (OSH) focuses on the process of taking scientific knowledge for the protection of workers from the lab to the field (i.e., the worksite/workplace) and back again. Translational science has been conceptualized as having multiple phases of research along a continuum, beyond scientific discovery (T0), to efficacy (T1), to effectiveness (T2), to dissemination and implementation (D&I) (T3), to outcomes and effectiveness research in populations (T4). The translational research process applied to occupational exposure to nanomaterials might involve similar phases. This builds on basic and efficacy research (T0 and T1) in the areas of toxicology, epidemiology, industrial hygiene, medicine and engineering. In T2, research and evidence syntheses and guidance and recommendations to protect workers may be developed and assessed for effectiveness. In T3, emphasis is needed on D&I research to explore the multilevel barriers and facilitators to nanotechnology risk control information/research adoption, use, and sustainment in workplaces. D&I research for nanomaterial exposures should focus on assessing sources of information and evidence to be disseminated /implemented in complex and dynamic workplaces, how policy-makers and employers use this information in diverse contexts to protect workers, how stakeholders inform these critical processes, and what barriers impede and facilitate multilevel decision-making for the protection of nanotechnology workers. The T4 phase focuses on how effective efforts to prevent occupational exposure to nanomaterials along the research continuum contribute to large-scale impact in terms of worker safety, health and wellbeing (T4). Stakeholder input and engagement is critical to all stages of the translational research process. This paper will provide: (1) an illustration of the translational research continuum for occupational exposure to nanomaterials; and (2) a discussion of opportunities for applying D&I science to increase the effectiveness, uptake, integration, sustainability, and impact of interventions to protect the health and wellbeing of workers in the nanotechnology field.

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Methods to improve the translation of evidence-based interventions: A primer on dissemination and implementation science for occupational safety and health researchers and practitioners

Cited by 19 publications

References 164 publications

COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021

COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021

Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action

Applying Translational Science Approaches to Protect Workers Exposed to Nanomaterials

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