Without perspectives of low-wage workers in studies of worker health and well-being, researchers cannot comprehensively assess occupational health and health equity impacts of workplace exposures and interventions. Researchers and practitioners have noted particular challenges in engaging low-wage workers in worksite-based health survey research, yet little scholarship has described strategies for improving their engagement and response rates. To fill this gap, we present case examples from 5 occupational studies conducted between 2020 and 2024 in industries including health care, food service, and fulfillment centers. For each case, we describe how we identified barriers to worker engagement in surveys, explain specific strategies we used to address those barriers, and assess the effectiveness of these actions. Then, summarizing across case examples, we offer practical recommendations to researchers surveying low-wage populations, highlighting that high-touch recruitment, building trust with workers and managers, and obtaining manager support to take surveys during work time (for worksite-based studies) are critical for obtaining reliable, representative data. Our work contributes to broader discussions on improving survey response rates in vulnerable worker populations and aims to support future researchers undertaking similar efforts. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print November 14, 2024:e1-e8. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307875).

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让低薪工人参与健康和福祉调查研究：来自 5 项职业研究的策略。


在工人健康和福祉研究中，如果没有低薪工人的观点，研究人员就无法全面评估工作场所暴露和干预对职业健康和健康公平的影响。研究人员和从业者已经注意到，在让低薪工人参与基于工作场所的健康调查研究方面存在特殊挑战，但很少有学术研究描述提高他们的参与度和响应率的策略。为了填补这一空白，我们展示了 2020 年至 2024 年间在医疗保健、食品服务和配送中心等行业进行的 5 项职业研究的案例。对于每个案例，我们描述了我们如何在调查中识别员工参与的障碍，解释我们用于解决这些障碍的具体策略，并评估这些行动的有效性。然后，通过总结案例，我们为调查低工资人群的研究人员提供了实用的建议，强调高接触招聘、与工人和经理建立信任以及获得经理支持在工作时间进行调查（对于基于工作场所的研究）对于获得可靠、有代表性的数据至关重要。我们的工作有助于就提高弱势工人群体的调查回复率进行更广泛的讨论，并旨在支持未来的研究人员进行类似的努力。（美国公共卫生杂志。2024 年 11 月 14 日提前在线发布：e1-e8。https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307875）。