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The utility of health belief model to explain self-protective behaviour against pneumoconiosis in Chinese underground coal miners: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis is caused by exposure to respirable coal mine dust. The self-protection of underground coal miners (UCM) plays an irreplaceable role against this threat. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictors of self-protective behaviour (SPB) in Chinese UCM based on the health belief model (HBM).

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 341 UCM in January 2016 in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, People's Republic of China. Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire, which included questions on sociodemographic characteristics, HBM variables and SPB. An exploratory factor analysis of the principal components with varimax rotation was carried out on the HBM-related items. Pearson's correlation and multiple linear regression analysis were used to assess the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics, HBM variables and SPB.

Results

Multiple regression analysis demonstrated the monthly income (B=0.403, p=0.001), the internal cues to action (B=0.380, p<0.001) and external cues to action (B=0.401, p<0.001) as the predictors of UCM's SPB, accounting for 24.8% of total variance (F=34.96, p<0.001), while the cognition variables of HBM were not significantly associated with SPB.

Conclusion

The results suggested that both internal and external cues to action were powerful predictors for SPB. These findings highlight that further efforts are required to provide the UCM with periodic health check-up reports and promote the active role of doctors and family members in miners' decision-making to simulate them for better SPB.

Ethics approval

All data collection procedures received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of Xuhui District Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (XHHEC-2016-7).

SUBMITTER: Liu Q

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561464 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The utility of health belief model to explain self-protective behaviour against pneumoconiosis in Chinese underground coal miners: a cross-sectional study.

Liu Qiong Q Chen Wanli W Qi Renjie R Geng Yang Y Liu Ya Y Zhou Ying Y Zhang Chenggang C Wang Xian X Wang Jiwei J Yu Jinming J

BMJ open 20190604 6

<h4>Objectives</h4>Coal workers' pneumoconiosis is caused by exposure to respirable coal mine dust. The self-protection of underground coal miners (UCM) plays an irreplaceable role against this threat. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictors of self-protective behaviour (SPB) in Chinese UCM based on the health belief model (HBM).<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional study was conducted among 341 UCM in January 2016 in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, People's Republic of China. Da ...[more]

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The utility of health belief model to explain self-protective behaviour against pneumoconiosis in Chinese underground coal miners: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Ethics approval

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The utility of health belief model to explain self-protective behaviour against pneumoconiosis in Chinese underground coal miners: a cross-sectional study.

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