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Occupational Medicine Advance Access originally published online on May 25, 2008
Occupational Medicine 2008 58(5):373-375; doi:10.1093/occmed/kqn061
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The effectiveness of an educational programme on occupational disease reporting

P. B. A. Smits1, A. G. E. M. de Boer1, P. P. F. M. Kuijer1, I. Braam1, D. Spreeuwers1, A. F. Lenderink1, J. H. A. M. Verbeek1,2 and F. J. H. van Dijk1

1 Netherlands Centre for Occupational Diseases, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Knowledge Transfer Team, Kuopio, Finland

Background: Occupational diseases are under reported. Targeted education of occupational physicians (OPs) may improve their rate of reporting occupational diseases.

Aim: To study the effectiveness of an active multifaceted workshop aimed at improving OPs’ reporting of occupational diseases.

Methods: We undertook a comparative study with 112 OPs in the intervention group and 571 OPs as comparisons. The intervention was a 1-day workshop. Measurements of occupational disease reporting activity in both groups in 6-month periods before and after the intervention were collected via the national registration system. Measurements of OPs’ knowledge, self-efficacy and satisfaction were made in the intervention group. Differences between the groups and predictive factors for reporting were subsequently analysed statistically.

Results: The percentage of reporting OPs after the intervention was significantly higher in the intervention group compared to the comparison group at 19 versus 11% (P < 0.01). No differences were found in the average number of reported occupational diseases per reporting physician after the intervention: 3.7 (SD 5.37) versus 3.4 (SD 4.56) (not significant). The self-efficacy score was a predictive factor for reporting occupational diseases (P < 0.05). Measurements of knowledge and self-efficacy increased significantly (both parameters P < 0.001) and remained after half a year. Satisfaction was high (7.85 of 10).

Conclusions: An active, multifaceted workshop on occupational diseases is effective in increasing the number of physicians reporting occupational diseases. Self-efficacy measures are a predictive factor for such reporting.

Keywords      Continuing medical education; occupational diseases; occupational physicians

Correspondence to: Paul B. A. Smits, Netherlands Centre for Occupational Diseases, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31205665333; fax: +31206977161; e-mail: p.b.smits{at}amc.nl


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