Environmental health risk perception: Adaptation of a population-based questionnaire from latin america

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dc.contributor.authorCortés Arancibia, Sandra Isabel
dc.contributor.authorBurgos, Soledad
dc.contributor.authorAdaros, Héctor
dc.contributor.authorLucero, Boris
dc.contributor.authorQuiróz-Alcalá, Lesliam
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-22T14:01:03Z
dc.date.available2024-01-22T14:01:03Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Environmental risk assessments and interventions to mitigate environmental risks are essential to protect public health. While the objective measurement of environmental hazards is important, it is also critical to address the subjective perception of health risks. A population’s perception of environmental health hazards is a powerful driving force for action and engagement in safety and health behaviors and can also inform the development of effective and more sustainable environmental health policies. To date, no instruments are available to assess risk perception of environmental health hazards in South America even though there are many concerning issues in the region, including mining. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to adapt and validate an environmental health risk perception questionnaire in a Chilean population affected by mining activity among other risks frequently reported in Latin American countries and included the collection of information on trust on public information sources. METHODS: We adapted an Australian risk perception questionnaire for validation in an adult population from a Chilean mining community. This adaptation included two blinded translations (direct, inverse), a pre-test study (n = 20) and a review by environmental health experts. Principal Component Analyses (PCA) was used to identify factors within major domains of interest. The Bartlett test of sphericity, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure and the Cronbach α test were used to assess the instrument’s validity and reliability. The instrument was pilot tested in 205 adults from a mining community in Chañaral. RESULTS: The final adapted questionnaire proved to be a good instrument to measure risk perception in a community chronically exposed to mining waste. For community risks, four factors explained 59.4% of the variance. “Global Issues” (30.2%) included air pollution, contamination of mining, ozone layer depletion and vector diseases. For personal risks, the first two components explained 59.5% of the variance, the main factor (36.7%) was “unhealthy behaviors within the household”. For trust in information, the first factor (36.2%) included as main sources “Media and authorities”. The Cronbach α ranged between 0.68 and 0.75; and the KMO test between 0.7 to 0.79 for community and personal risks and trust. CONCLUSIONS: The final questionnaire is a simple, reliable and useful instrument that can assist in evaluating environmental health risk perceptions in Latin American countries.
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dc.fuente.origenScopus
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph18168600
dc.identifier.eissn16604601
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601
dc.identifier.pubmedidMEDLINE:34444349
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID:85112371647
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/16/8600/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/80864
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000690606600001
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Medicina; Cortés Arancibia, Sandra Isabel; 0000-0003-3293-1419; 1005970
dc.issue.numero8600
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.pagina.final13
dc.pagina.inicio1
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.revistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectEnvironmental health
dc.subjectEnvironmental risks
dc.subjectRisk perception
dc.subject.ddc620
dc.subject.deweyIngenieríaes_ES
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleEnvironmental health risk perception: Adaptation of a population-based questionnaire from latin america
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen18
sipa.codpersvinculados1005970
sipa.trazabilidadScopus;12-10-2021
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