| Adams, JSK (2013) Increasing compliance with protective eyewear to reduce ocular injuries in stone‐quarry workers in Tamil Nadu, India: a pragmatic, cluster randomized trial of a single education session versus an enhanced education package delivered over 6 months. | |
| Country | IN |
| Aim | Evaluate whether participants allocated to intensive and less intensive educational strategies differed in the incidence of detected eye injuries. |
| Target population | Occupation: Stone quarry workers |
| Industry: Mining | |
| Setting: 100 Underground | |
| Firm size: 10–49 (small) | |
| Study design | RCT with comparison conditions: Alternative type of intervention |
| Unit of analysis: Group/organizational level | |
| Sample size: 103 workers (cases with enhanced education program; 92/103 at follow‐up). 101 workers (controls standard education program; 91/101 at follow‐up) = 204. | |
| Type of intervention | 1.1.2 Counseling approaches |
| Evaluation design | Duration of intervention: 6 months |
| Duration of follow‐up: 2 = Short‐term (≤12 months) | |
| Type of outcome measure: Injury | |
| Study quality | High quality |