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Outcomes of Non-Motor Vehicle
Crash Work Injuries to Commercial Truck Drivers
Deborah Reed, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Terry Bunn, Ph.D., Co-investigator
Funded by the
University of Kentucky Faculty Research Support Program
(10/1/2006 - 8/31/2007)
Abstract
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The purpose of this pilot study is to develop a case-based
compendium of stories of injured truck drivers. These data
will be used to support an R21 and R01 to develop and test a
translational intervention research project utilizing
narrative simulations to reduce trucker injury. Narrative
text and video data will be collected from interviews with
commercial truck drivers who have experienced work-related
injury not related to motor vehicle crashes. Participants
will be recruited through an existing list of truckers who
have agreed to be contacted for future studies, and through
a UK health provider who conducts Department of
Transportation physicals. Interviews will be held by
telephone or in person at truck stop restaurants and truck
shows. Narrative text data on injury epidemiology and
physical, psychological, and economic outcomes will be
collected via audiotape. Video data will include footage of
equipment and/or environment where injury occurred when
possible, and any fabrication of specialized devices or work
modifications the participant used to prevent future injury.
Forty participants will each complete a single interview.
Data will be analyzed for content and themes. These data do
not exist now and are essential for the development of
realistic and applicable narrative simulations. Plans are in
place to share the data with other UK researchers interested
in the occupational injury and health status of truckers.
Currently, the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health are
conducting research in this field, and faculty and students
are holding regular meetings to advance this program of
research.
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