Vanlaldiki Chhakchhuak, Kuntala Ray, Sanjay Kumar Saha, Mausumi Basu
A cross-sectional study on anxiety due to COVID-19 and its predictors among undergraduate medical students in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal
Indian journal of public health
occupational health disparities well documented among immigrant populations occupational injury remains high cause morbidity mortality among immigrant populations several factors contribute high prevalence workrelated injury among population without legal status likely experience abusive labor practices lead injury workrelated injuries experiences spanishspeaking workers explored previously paucity literature documenting injury among hospitalized patients additionally documented hospitalbased occupational injury prevention programs programs implement workers rights information purpose study explore context work related injuries primarily experienced spanish speaking patients knowledge rights workplace semistructured qualitative interview study spanish speaking patients admitted hospital work related injuries study team member conducting interviews bilingual trained qualitative methodology interview guide utilized interviews developed immigrant workers rights organization study team expertise factors documented literature participants asked type context injury sustained access perceptions workplace safety knowledge participants rights workers interviews conducted spanish recorded transcribed spanish translated english codebook developed refined iteratively two independent coders coded english transcripts using dedoose interviews conducted thematic saturation reached data analyzed using thematic analysis approach total eight interviews completed participants reported working hazardous conditions resulted injury participants expressed relative acceptance workplace environment dangerous acknowledged injuries common essentially normalizing risk injury varying reports access utilization safety information equipment employer engagement safety perceived facilitator safety participants familiarity occupational safety health administration osha inspections familiar osha procedures rights workers identified several themes related workplace injury among spanish speaking patients many raise concerns access workplace safety reinjury longterm recovery context around immigration particularly important consider may lead unique risk factors injury recovery reinjury workplace beyond workplace suggesting perhaps immigration status alone may serve predisposition injury thus critical understand context around work related injuries population considering tremendous impact employment ones health financial stability research topic warranted specifically exploration multiple intersecting layers exposure injury among immigrant populations future work focus hospitalbased strategies injury prevention know rights education tailored spanish speaking populations