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2. Farm dinner theater: improving health And safety for farm families
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reed, Deborah B. (author), McCallum, Debra (author), and Legault, Eileen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-16
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12293
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 59, n. 2
- Notes:
- 3 pages, This article provides a brief overview of Farm Dinner Theater (FDT), a novel intervention that positively influences the health and safety behaviors of senior family farmers and their family. The FDT uses principles of adult learning and engages the audience in conversations about their health and safety experiences. The FDT was developed through interdisciplinary community-engaged research and tested using a repeated measures design with 553 intervention and 317 comparison participants. Significant changes were reported and the FDT is now being used by Extension through the use of a toolkit developed by the project.
3. National poll shows COVID-19 taking heavy toll on farmers' mental health
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-07
- Published:
- USA: Henderson Communications L.L.C., Adel, Iowa.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12077
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Summary of findings from a poll conducted recently by the American Farm Bureau Federation. "The results of a new poll clearly demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic is having broad-ranging impacts among rural adults and farmers/farmworkers." Findings also identified main obstacles to seeking help or treatment for mental health condition, the most trusted sources for information about mental health, impressions of the importance of mental health in rural communities and the importance of reducing stigma surrounding mental health.