Occupational Skin Disease Prevention: An Educational Intervention for Hairdresser Cosmetology Students

Haughtigan, Kara; Main, Eve; Bragg-Underwood, Tonya; Watkins, Cecilia

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“…Occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) represents up to 48.3% of workrelated diseases with different percentages in relation to insurance system characteristics. 1,2 One of the most affected occupations is the hairdressing profession, 3 due to workplace exposure to multiple of sensitizing substances and irritating agents 4,5 in combination with wet work known to induce or aggravate other skin disorders. 6,7 Wet work, including frequent hand and hair washing, damp hair handling, and glove wearing, is the most frequent irritant exposure.…”

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Characteristics and incidence of contact dermatitis among hairdressers in north‐eastern Italy

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Background: Hairdressers are at high risk of contact dermatitis (CD) due to skin exposure to numerous irritants and haptens in hair products in combination with frequent wet work. Objectives: To investigate the characteristics and incidence of CD among hairdressers in northeastern Italy. Methods: A total of 324 hairdressers who had been examined and patch tested in northeastern Italy from 1996 to 2016 were retrospectively identified, and compared with 9669 matched controls. Sensitization to allergens of the hairdressing series was analysed among hairdressers attending an occupational medicine clinic in Trieste, Italy. Incidence data were calculated from 1999 to 2016. Results: Sensitization to p-phenylenediamine, thiuram mix, and N-isopropyl-N'-phenylp-phenylenediamine was significantly associated with hairdressing and with hand/forearms dermatitis. Frequent sensitizers from hairdressing series were ammonium persulfate, toluene-2,5-diamine, and p-aminobenzene. The overall incidence of CD declined from 2003 (31.7 cases/10 000 workers) to 2016 (20.8 cases/10 000 workers). Conclusions: Sensitization to several haptens was significantly associated with hairdressing. The incidence of CD among hairdressers in northeastern Italy has declined in recent years, but is still high. Preventive efforts are needed to reduce the burden of CD in this professional group.

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Characteristics and incidence of contact dermatitis among hairdressers in north‐eastern Italy

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“…A study based on the PRECEDE–PROCEED model was found to be an effective method to prevent HE, and evidence-based practices were integrated into the HPM and the SHP program, which was similarly effective (Santer et al, 2014). Many randomized controlled studies indicate that clinical assessment of participants should be performed by a specialist, referred to as the “gold standard” (Bregnhoj et al, 2012; Haughtigan et al, 2017; Mauro et al, 2017). Thus, an important aspect of this study is the clinical examination of the severity of HE symptoms and model-based multiple interventions and educational program application.…”

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“…A limited number of studies describe the effect of protective glove usage on HE symptoms in young individuals working in high-risk occupations. The studies found that the use of powdered and latex-containing gloves is not preferred for long-term use because of the side effect of increased skin symptoms (Flyvholm et al, 2005; Haughtigan et al, 2017; Oreskov et al, 2015). Side effects are eliminated with the use of nitrile and powder-free gloves, which reduce skin disease symptoms (Steengaard et al, 2016).…”

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Health Promotion Model-Based Skin Health Program to Improve Skin Health Behaviors, Quality of Life, and Self-Efficacy and Reduce Eczema Symptoms in Hairdresser Apprentices

Aktaş

Esin

2022

Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association

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PurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the skin health promotion program based on the health promotion model (HPM) to reduce hand eczema (HE) symptom severity and improve skin health behavior in young hairdressers and barber apprentices.Design and MethodsThe study was designed as pretest–posttest quasi-experimental control group research with repetitive measurements in the first-, third-, and sixth-month follow-up, which included 96 young workers (intervention = 48, control = 48). The program, as secondary prevention, consists of training with evidence-based recommendations, cognitive determinants, and practices to improve skin health behaviors.FindingsThe mean age of the young workers was 20.77 ± 4.85 years. After the sixth month of intervention, total severity scores of HE symptoms in the intervention group were significantly decreased from 5.92 to 2.91. In addition, the frequency of skin health behaviors and cognitive factors showed statistically positive changes (p < .05).ConclusionsThe skin health promotion program based on HPM is effective in reducing HE symptoms and improving the skin health behaviors of young workers. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, can use the HPM-based skin health program to improve skin health and psychological health resulting from skin disease symptoms in other specific skin diseases for their patients.

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“…The findings of this research are parallel to the studies that have been conducted by previous researchers [62], [63], which they found that HBP have a lack of self-confidence to communicate with the customers. High level of self-confidence can help the cosmetology students to communicate well when interacting with the customers [35], [38], [67]. The cosmetology students need to have high self-confidence as they need to provide quality beauty treatment and consultation services to the customers [13], [65].…”

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“…Among the factors that cause they have lack of communication skills in the workplace is their weakness in mastering the basic knowledge or theory in cosmetology field [35] and incompetency to transfer the learned theories into a practical form [9]. Whereas, the skills of transferring theory into the practical form will indirectly help in increasing the level of self-confidence among the cosmetologists to communicate with their clients better [38]- [40]. In addition, among the factors that cause the cosmetology students to have a weak level of proficiency in communication skills is they rarely use the basic words to describe something towards their customers [36], [41], [42].…”

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Enhancing cosmetology students’ communication skills in Malaysian upper secondary vocational education program

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Puad

Kamis

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<span>The quality of beauty treatment services will be evaluated by the clients subjectively whether they are satisfied or otherwise with the services provided. However, the reports and complaints related to customer dissatisfaction when receiving beauty treatment services at beauty centers are increasing. Unfortunately, the suggestions for improvement from the previous studies are still insufficient. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the importance of proficiency in communication skills and the need for training modules in the teaching and learning process (T&L). It is required to improve communication skills among cosmetology students for Upper Secondary Vocational Education Program (USVEP) in beauty arts course. The data were collected through the interview method on six USVEP teachers and a beauty salon entrepreneur. The findings of the study found that the proficiency in communication skills among the cosmetology students is an important requirement for employers in selecting their employees, increasing customer loyalty and the customer’s frequency to visit beauty salons, and maintaining the excellent performance of cosmetology students in the workplace. In addition, there is also a high demand for the development of communication skills training modules in helping cosmetology students to constantly updated with new knowledge and skills needed from time to time. Therefore, adequate training is required to improve the competency in communication skills among the cosmetology students.</span>

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Occupational Skin Disease Prevention: An Educational Intervention for Hairdresser Cosmetology Students

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Characteristics and incidence of contact dermatitis among hairdressers in north‐eastern Italy

Characteristics and incidence of contact dermatitis among hairdressers in north‐eastern Italy

Health Promotion Model-Based Skin Health Program to Improve Skin Health Behaviors, Quality of Life, and Self-Efficacy and Reduce Eczema Symptoms in Hairdresser Apprentices

Enhancing cosmetology students’ communication skills in Malaysian upper secondary vocational education program

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