Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries
Effective interventions to reduce work-related exposures are available for many types of work-related diseases or injuries. However, knowledge of the impact of these interventions on injury or disease outcomes is scarce due to practical and methodological reasons. Study designs are considered for th...
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| author | Henk F. van der Molen Susan J. Stocks Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen |
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| description | Effective interventions to reduce work-related exposures are available for many types of work-related diseases or injuries. However, knowledge of the impact of these interventions on injury or disease outcomes is scarce due to practical and methodological reasons. Study designs are considered for the evaluation of occupational health interventions on occupational disease or injury. Latency and frequency of occurrence of the health outcomes are two important features when designing an evaluation study with occupational disease or occupational injury as an outcome measure. Controlled evaluation studies—giving strong indications for an intervention effect—seem more suitable for more frequently occurring injuries or diseases. Uncontrolled evaluation time or case series studies are an option for evaluating less frequently occurring injuries or diseases. Interrupted time series offer alternatives to experimental randomized controlled trials to give an insight into the effectiveness of preventive actions in the work setting to decision and policy makers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74bec35bb9f64aa7b9d2ebfaf5170bb72023-09-02T19:50:43ZengElsevierSafety and Health at Work2093-79112016-03-0171838510.1016/j.shaw.2015.09.002Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and InjuriesHenk F. van der Molen0Susan J. Stocks1Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen2Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCenter for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKCoronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsEffective interventions to reduce work-related exposures are available for many types of work-related diseases or injuries. However, knowledge of the impact of these interventions on injury or disease outcomes is scarce due to practical and methodological reasons. Study designs are considered for the evaluation of occupational health interventions on occupational disease or injury. Latency and frequency of occurrence of the health outcomes are two important features when designing an evaluation study with occupational disease or occupational injury as an outcome measure. Controlled evaluation studies—giving strong indications for an intervention effect—seem more suitable for more frequently occurring injuries or diseases. Uncontrolled evaluation time or case series studies are an option for evaluating less frequently occurring injuries or diseases. Interrupted time series offer alternatives to experimental randomized controlled trials to give an insight into the effectiveness of preventive actions in the work setting to decision and policy makers.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379111500075Xinterventionsoccupational diseasesstudy designs |
| spellingShingle | Henk F. van der Molen Susan J. Stocks Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries Safety and Health at Work interventions occupational diseases study designs |
| title | Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries |
| title_full | Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries |
| title_fullStr | Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries |
| title_short | Exploring Study Designs for Evaluation of Interventions Aimed to Reduce Occupational Diseases and Injuries |
| title_sort | exploring study designs for evaluation of interventions aimed to reduce occupational diseases and injuries |
| topic | interventions occupational diseases study designs |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379111500075X |
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