Normalization assessment of occupational health literacy questionnaire among mining industries employees of Iran

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nazem sedighi ناظم صدیقی ¹ (PHD candidate. psychology department, roudehen branch, Islamic azad university, Roudehen. Iran)
amin rafiepoor ² (2. Associate Professor, Department of psychology, Payam-e-noor university, Iran. (corresponding author))
mehrdad sabet ³ (3. Assistant Professor, Department of psychology and Social Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran)

Received: 2023-04-18 Accepted : 2023-04-27 Published : 2024-06-26

Keywords: occupational health literacy, reliability, validity, norm, mining industries employees,

Abstract :

Abstract Objective:: Due to special working conditions, mine workers face various occupational risks and accidents. Considering that unsafe behaviors play a role in the occurrence of accidents in industrial environments, dealing with the occupational health of employees, which indicates the capacity and ability to access, communicate and understand health and safety services and information, This leads to healthy decisions in the workplace. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of standardizing occupational health literacy questionnaire among employees of Imidro's mining industries in Iran. Method: The present study was a correlational descriptive study and it was conducted on 283 employees of 15 units of Imidro Mining Industries in Iran using available sampling method. The data was analyzed using Cronbach's alpha and exploratory factor analysis using SPSS24 software. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed the existence of 4 factors of ability to obtain information, understand information, evaluate information and use information in occupational health and safety, which in total explain 43.018% of the total variance. Also, the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha indicated good reliability for the whole scale (0.91) and for the 4 mentioned factors between 0.752 and 0.852. The norm of the questionnaire was done with the standard T score, which can be interpreted in 4 levels of occupational health literacy (weak, medium, high and very high). Conclusion: the occupational health literacy questionnaire is sufficient and can be used in future researches, and this questionnaire has sufficient reliability and validity to measure this construct in Iranian samples. Keywords: occupational health literacy, reliability, validity, norm