Ergonomics and First Aid Training for Children of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Families

Evaluation of Ergonomics Awareness and First Aid Training Activities Given to Children of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Families

The aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of ergonomic awareness and first aid training given to children of seasonal agricultural worker families.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Worker Disease, Agricultural
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Ergonomics Awareness and First Aid Training Program

Detailed Description

In our country, especially from the Southeastern Anatolia region, the seasonal agricultural worker migration movement exceeding 1 million starts in March-April and ends in October-November. In Turkey, a significant number of children are forced to work in agriculture in more than 50 provinces in different regions of the country by participating in seasonal agricultural worker migration with their families. Şanlıurfa, which constitutes our project area, is the third largest agricultural area province in Turkey after Konya and Ankara. Despite this, due to reasons such as high population growth rate, mechanization in agriculture, division of agricultural lands by inheritance, and the failure of industry to develop in parallel with agricultural production, thousands of people migrate from Şanlıurfa to different regions of our country every year as seasonal migrant agricultural workers.

The "National Program to Combat Child Labor (2017-2023) Action Plan" was carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of the Republic of Turkey to eliminate child labor in our country. Similarly, among our 11th development goals (2019-2023), eliminating the worst forms of child labor in seasonal migratory agricultural work has been given priority. In this context, some projects such as the "Prevention of Child Labor in Seasonal Agriculture Project and the Comprehensive Model Project to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Seasonal Hazelnut Farming in Turkey" have been carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the International Labor Organization Turkey Office, labor and employer organizations, the Ministries of National Education, Interior, Agriculture and Forestry, the Turkish Employment Agency, municipalities, universities and non-governmental organizations in our country. These projects were generally carried out to identify and register MTİ children and ensure that they continue their education in the provinces they migrated to. The pilot provinces where these projects are carried out are generally provinces such as Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Mardin, Diyarbakır, where seasonal agricultural worker child migration is intense in our country, or Ordu, Sakarya, Malatya, Düzce, Adana, where seasonal agricultural worker children intensively go to work. However, many reasons such as earthquakes, pandemics and floods experienced in our country have prevented the desired goal from being achieved. In article 730 of our 12th development goals (2024-2028), priority has been given to continuing the fight against child labor with determination and providing first aid, occupational health and safety, children's rights and labor law training to seasonal migrant agricultural worker children. Şanlıurfa, where the project will be carried out, is among the provinces with the highest seasonal agricultural worker child migration in our country, and was affected by earthquake and flood in 2023 after the COVID-19 outbreak. It is also the 3rd province with the highest refugee population. The aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of ergonomic awareness and first aid training given to children of seasonal agricultural worker families.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 140
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: fatma bozdağ; Phone Number: 05417752708; Email: fatmabozdag@harran.edu.tr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: fatih enzin; Phone Number: 0543 458 74 83; Email: fatihenzin@harran.edu.tr

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Şanlıurfa, Turkey, 633000
    • Fatma Bozdağ

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children who are between the ages of 14 and 18, who have no communication problems, who volunteer to participate in the research, and whose families have worked as seasonal agricultural workers at least once in their lives will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who do not meet the sample selection criteria, do not attend ergonomic awareness and first aid training, or drop out of training will be excluded from the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: control grubu; Children will first be administered the Personal Information Form, Ergonomics Awareness Questionnaire for Children and First Aid Knowledge Level Questionnaire for Children. After one month without any intervention, Ergonomics Awareness Questionnaire for Children and First Aid Knowledge Level Questionnaire for Children will be administered to the children again.
Experimental: intervention group; Children will first be administered the Personal Information Form, Ergonomics Awareness Questionnaire for Children and First Aid Knowledge Level Questionnaire for Children. Afterwards, children will be included in the Ergonomics Awareness and First Aid Training Program. One month after the training, Ergonomics Awareness Questionnaire for Children and First Aid Knowledge Level Questionnaire for Children will be administered again.	Other: Ergonomics Awareness and First Aid Training Program; The ergonomic awareness and first aid training program includes training on possible situations that children of seasonal agricultural worker families may encounter in the field.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Ergonomics awareness level	Scores from the ergonomic awareness survey for children	1 month
First aid knowledge level	Scores from the first aid knowledge level survey for children	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Harran University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: fatma bozdağ, Harran University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): November 7, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 8, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 20, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 26, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 26, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): October 29, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 29, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 26, 2024
• Last Verified: October 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: child; ergonomics; first aid
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Occupational Diseases; Agricultural Workers' Diseases
• Other Study ID Numbers: HRU-BOZDAG-005

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No