Latino Youth Agricultural Study

Reducing Pesticide Exposure Among Latino Adolescents Through a Promotora-based Intervention

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The goal of the project is to determine the effectiveness of each intervention in promoting increased knowledge and practice of pesticide safety behaviors.

This project implements and evaluates a promotora-based intervention targeted at adolescent farm workers. The intervention will be delivered to two different treatment groups: 1) adolescent only, adolescents receive the adapted adolescent version of La Familia Sana program and 2) family enhanced, adolescent and mother both receive the La Familia Sana program. In addition, there will be a control group where adolescent farmworkers will not be exposed to any pesticide safety program. Our project will:

1. Determine if a promotora-based intervention targeting pesticide safety in the workplace is effective in increasing knowledge about safety behaviors among Latino adolescents engaged in farm work.
2. Delineate variation by group among adolescents' knowledge about safety behaviors.
3. Delineate variation in adolescents' pesticide safety behaviors and neurological outcomes after intervention between all groups.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent self-identifies as Latino, Hispanic, or of Latin American heritage
• Adolescent is between the ages of 12-21
• Adolescent has been engaged (paid or unpaid) in farm work for at least 10 hours in he last 30 days
• Adolescent has a parent living with them

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal of youth to provide assent or parent to provide consent