title: Reliability and validity of the Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool).
abstract: Home care workers are a priority population for ergonomic assessment and intervention, but research on caregivers' exposures to hazards is limited. The current project evaluated the reliability and validity of an ergonomic self-assessment tool called Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool). Participants (N = 23) completed a background survey followed by 10-14 days of self-monitoring with the STAT. Results showed that the most frequent task was house cleaning, and that participants regularly performed dangerous manual client moving and transferring tasks. Researcher in-home observations of 14 workers (duration ≤ 2 h) demonstrated that workers' self-assessments were moderately reliable. Correlational and multi-level analyses of daily self-assessment data revealed that several task exposures were significantly related to daily fatigue and/or pain. Other associations have implications for Total Worker Health™; for example, daily stress was positively associated with both pain and consumption of high calorie snacks. Findings support the STAT as a reliable and potentially valid tool for measuring home care workers' exposures to physically demanding tasks.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA; Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CB 669, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA; Portland State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA. Electronic address: olsonry@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA. Electronic address: wipflib@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wipfli
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA; Portland State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA. Electronic address: wrightro@byui.edu.
authors.forename: Robert R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd., Portland, OR 97239-2941, USA. Electronic address: garrigue@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Layla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garrigues
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CB 669, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA. Electronic address: nguythua@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Thuan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.affiliation: University of Valencia, Department of Social Psychology, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: b.lopezdecastro@universitalent.com.
authors.forename: Borja
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: López de Castro
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection; D006804:Ergonomics; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012449:Safety / Q000592:standards*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis
keywords: Hazard exposure; Home care workers; Self-assessment