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Environmental Health Needs Among Latinas in Cleaning Occupations: A Mixed Methods Approach

In the U.S., approximately half of maids and housekeeping cleaners are Latino or Hispanic, while the vast majority are women (88.3%). This largely immigrant, underserved workforce faces complex factors, which may contribute to adverse health outcomes. To understand relevant barriers and challenges,...

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Autores principales: Speiser, Erin, Pinto Zipp, Genevieve, DeLuca, Deborah A., Paula Cupertino, Ana, Arana-Chicas, Evelyn, Gourna Paleoudis, Elli, Bethea, Traci N., Kligler, Benjamin, Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9125105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35614881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302221100045
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author Speiser, Erin
Pinto Zipp, Genevieve
DeLuca, Deborah A.
Paula Cupertino, Ana
Arana-Chicas, Evelyn
Gourna Paleoudis, Elli
Bethea, Traci N.
Kligler, Benjamin
Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco
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Pinto Zipp, Genevieve
DeLuca, Deborah A.
Paula Cupertino, Ana
Arana-Chicas, Evelyn
Gourna Paleoudis, Elli
Bethea, Traci N.
Kligler, Benjamin
Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco
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description In the U.S., approximately half of maids and housekeeping cleaners are Latino or Hispanic, while the vast majority are women (88.3%). This largely immigrant, underserved workforce faces complex factors, which may contribute to adverse health outcomes. To understand relevant barriers and challenges, this mixed-methods study explored the environmental health needs of a heterogeneous group of Latinas in New Jersey (NJ) who clean occupationally, and consisted of 3 focus groups (N = 15) with a cross-sectional survey (N = 9), both conducted in Spanish. Participants were recruited from community-based English as a Second Language classes in Hackensack, NJ. Analysis of focus group audio recordings included descriptive and in vivo coding followed by inductive coding to explore thematic analysis. The survey responses were evaluated using descriptive statistics. As per the survey results, the environmental health needs of this population include sore muscles, back problems, asthma, other respiratory issues, migraine or headache, and skin issues (rash, etc.). In the group discussions, the roles of genetics, food, and chemical exposures in cancer etiology were of great interest and a variety of opinions on the topic were explored. Both the focus group discussions and survey responses suggested that this population also faces barriers including lack of training, chemical exposures and inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE). These barriers are compounded by daily environmental exposures from personal home cleaning practices. The development of culturally- and linguistically-appropriate interventions are warranted to better protect the health of essential occupational cleaners who keep homes, businesses and schools clean.
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spelling pubmed-91251052022-05-24 Environmental Health Needs Among Latinas in Cleaning Occupations: A Mixed Methods Approach Speiser, Erin Pinto Zipp, Genevieve DeLuca, Deborah A. Paula Cupertino, Ana Arana-Chicas, Evelyn Gourna Paleoudis, Elli Bethea, Traci N. Kligler, Benjamin Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco Environ Health Insights Original Research In the U.S., approximately half of maids and housekeeping cleaners are Latino or Hispanic, while the vast majority are women (88.3%). This largely immigrant, underserved workforce faces complex factors, which may contribute to adverse health outcomes. To understand relevant barriers and challenges, this mixed-methods study explored the environmental health needs of a heterogeneous group of Latinas in New Jersey (NJ) who clean occupationally, and consisted of 3 focus groups (N = 15) with a cross-sectional survey (N = 9), both conducted in Spanish. Participants were recruited from community-based English as a Second Language classes in Hackensack, NJ. Analysis of focus group audio recordings included descriptive and in vivo coding followed by inductive coding to explore thematic analysis. The survey responses were evaluated using descriptive statistics. As per the survey results, the environmental health needs of this population include sore muscles, back problems, asthma, other respiratory issues, migraine or headache, and skin issues (rash, etc.). In the group discussions, the roles of genetics, food, and chemical exposures in cancer etiology were of great interest and a variety of opinions on the topic were explored. Both the focus group discussions and survey responses suggested that this population also faces barriers including lack of training, chemical exposures and inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE). These barriers are compounded by daily environmental exposures from personal home cleaning practices. The development of culturally- and linguistically-appropriate interventions are warranted to better protect the health of essential occupational cleaners who keep homes, businesses and schools clean. SAGE Publications 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9125105/ /pubmed/35614881 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11786302221100045 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Bethea, Traci N.
Kligler, Benjamin
Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco
Environmental Health Needs Among Latinas in Cleaning Occupations: A Mixed Methods Approach
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title_sort environmental health needs among latinas in cleaning occupations: a mixed methods approach
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