Sun protection behaviors of state park workers in the southeastern USA

© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society. Background: Due to the nature of their work, state park workers receive substantial exposure to sunlight, putting them at an increased risk of developing skin cancer. Increased use of sun protection behaviors can reduce this risk. Objectives: Using the health belief model (HBM) as a theoretical framework, the purpose of this study was to assess factors associated with sun protection behaviors among state-park workers. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of participants were recruited from 23 state parks in the Southeastern USA to complete a self-administered questionnaire based on the constructs of the HBM. Results: The sample comprised 310 state park workers. The majority of participants were non-Hispanic White (61.6%), male (63.5%), and were aged 39.56 (±13.97) years on average.The average duration of sun exposure during the workday was reported as 3.51 h (±1.88). Nearly 12% of the participants reported that their workplace had a sun-safety policy and ~10% reported receiving sun-safety training at their workplace.The majority of participants reported that they did not sufficiently use sun protection methods. Factors associated with sun protection behaviors included the HBM constructs of perceived benefits outweighing perceived barriers (standardized coefficient = 0.210, P = 0.001), self-efficacy (standardized coefficient = 0.333, P \u3c 0.001), and cues to action (standardized coefficient = 0.179, P = 0.004). Conclusion: Future research should explore the barriers to adopting and enforcing sun-safety policies in the workplace. HBM appears to be efficacious in explaining sun protection behaviors among state park workers. HBM constructs should be considered in future interventions aimed at increasing sun protection behaviors in this population

Bilateral femoral neck fractures due to transient osteoporosis of pregnancy: a case report

We describe a case of bilateral femoral neck fractures secondary to transient osteoporosis of pregnancy, which were diagnosed after delivery due to the desire to avoid ionising radiation. These fractures were presumed to be secondary to transient osteoporosis of pregnancy and were treated successfully with internal fixation despite delayed presentation. We discuss the role of MRI in the evaluation of hip pain in pregnancy

Firstness Study Data

Firstness study to determine if our manuscript, if published, would be the first to publish images of paraphenylenediamine (PPD) allergic contact dermatitis in Type 5 patients in a journal.THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV

Requirements and Costs for Picking, Snapping and Sledding Cotton in Western Texas and Oklahoma: A Preliminary Report

Excerpts: Picking by hand has always been the universal method of harvesting cotton. In parts of Texas and Oklahoma a part of the crop does not always mature and as early as 1910, the practice was to gather the cotton by PULLING or SNAPPING the immature bolls from the stalk, whereas in PICKING, the matured seed cotton was extracted from the open bolls and the hulls were left on the stalks. The lint which was extracted from the immature bolls was known as "bollie cotton". Snapping cotton, as practiced at present, represents an extension of the old method of saving bollies, whereby the practice of snapping the immature fruit from the plant gave way to the practice of actually hand stripping the plant of both open and unopen bolls. Recently the hand stripping method has been replaced on some farms in Western Texas and Oklahoma by "sledding". The cotton sled is a great saver of time and labor and much interest in its development has been manifested in the eastern part of the Cotton Belt as well as in those parts of the Cotton Belt where it is now used in a more or less limited way. The purpose of this report is to indicate the main reasons for the introduction of the sled, the possibilities of using it elsewhere, and the outstanding advantages and disadvantages of harvesting cotton with the sled as compared with harvesting by "picking'' or "snapping"

Progress of Farm Mechanization

Excerpt from the report: Farm mechanization has made striking progress, and this progress, more than any other single thing, enabled American farmers to produce the large volume of agricultural products that helped so much to win World War II. Some of the future potentialities of mechanization cannot be fully measured at this time. Others seem almost assured for the next farming generation. This publication keynotes the place of farm mechanization in the greatest of all farm production jobs, and analyzes the influences of mechanization on farm employment, on efficiencies in production, and on production costs and returns of agriculture