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Farm Dinner Theater: Improving Health And Safety For Farm Families

Authors
  • Deborah B. Reed (University of Kentucky)
  • Debra McCallum (University of Alabama)
  • Eileen Legault (University of Tennessee)

Abstract

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.

Keywords: farm theater, Health, safety, Education

How to Cite:

Reed, D. B., McCallum, D. & Legault, E., (2021) “Farm Dinner Theater: Improving Health And Safety For Farm Families”, [TEST] Journal of Extension 59(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.59.02.16

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Published on
2021-06-16

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0