Health Study Looking for Drivers

[ladymacguiver]

This is a link to a study currently looking for drivers to join. It may be worthwhile if anyone wishes to help the future of America's drivers health!

http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00381992?order=45

[White Dog]

I guess, if I read it right......that study is mostly looking for dirty, sickening, lot lizzard lovers, and perhaps neele users. What kind of perception do the students @ University of Alabama at Birmingham have of this industry?

However, they have found 337 people to voulanteer.


Gonorrhea
Chlamydia Infections
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Diabetes Mellitus
Hypertension
Obesity
HIV Infections
Hyperlipidemia


I guess they threw in Hypertension, Obesity, and Diabetes to get some "takers".:confused:

[ladymacguiver]

I guess, if I read it right......that study is mostly looking for dirty, sickening, lot lizzard lovers, and perhaps neele users. What kind of perception do the students @ University of Alabama at Birmingham have of this industry?

However, they have found 337 people to voulanteer.




I guess they threw in Hypertension, Obesity, and Diabetes to get some "takers".:confused:

WD I try NOT to comment on your posts, however, I myself saw nothing wrong with them at least TRYING to help drivers improve their health!!! Of course, we all know that with your record, there's a few other names that could be applied to you and driver isn't one of them!!

KMA!

[White Dog]

First of all.......I love you too.:D


Secondly; did you even bother to browes the link you provided? I don't see what you're getting upset about.

Apparently the fine people at University of Alabama think there is a problem with truck drivers catching STDs' and "filth" related diseases on the road......and they wanna figure out why!

Here are their "Specific Aims" for the love of God:
Specific Aim 1. To perform focus groups and in-depth interviews with long-haul truck drivers to guide development of both a behavioral risk assessment instrument and an acceptable HIV/STI screening protocol for long-haul truckers.

Specific Aim 2. To perform in-depth interviews with trucking industry executives to determine barriers to routine HIV/STI assessment and screening of their employees.

Specific Aim 3. To perform a pilot phase with a subsample of long-haul truck drivers characterized by the following steps: TTM-based “cognitive interviews” (N=5); pilot testing of the survey and biomedical screening protocol (N=15); and a follow-up focus group (N=8)

Specific Aim 4. To assess a sample of (N=300) truck drivers for sexual risk behaviors using the adapted theory-based survey and to determine the prevalence of HIV, N. gonorrhoeae, and C. trachomatis, in long-haul truck drivers.




These people aren't putting you on a tread-mill and checking your heart rate------they are poking your finger and pap smearing your cervix to she what kind of dirty Gigalo or Whore you are.

They don't care if you're eating too many foods with colesterol or if you consume too much sugar; they wanna know who the dirty rotten low life truck driver has been screwing.



Now; I don't know about you.......but I know a LOT of truck drivers, and NONE of them mess around with lot lizards, let alone have or carry an STD.


The web site, and its' study offends me. And your nievitey would offend me too.......if I gave a damn.


Like I said; I can't belive they found 337 people willing to subject themselves to their silly study.

At the bottom of the page (your link) they have a section called "More Info."
In that section they break down three things:

1). Key words

2). Study Catagories

3). Additional relevant MeSH terms


And you'll find words in there like: diabetes mellitus, hypertension and obesity........but none of those lagitament health concerns meet their "specific aim".


You just found a crappy web site to promote, that's all......no sence in getting all upset at me for it.:cool:

[ladymacguiver]

OK I guess our views are different WD. I'll apologise for my comments, however, I still see nothing wrong with the study, because it could do some good on those aspects and show that we are NOT as bad as some of the public believe us to be.

Truce!

[White Dog]

I still see nothing wrong with the study, because it could do some good on those aspects and show that we are NOT as bad as some of the public believe us to be.
You're right......I missed that aspect; thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Hopefully when the study is complete, and they find out truckers aren't running all over the country spreading STDs' and Hepatitus; they publisize their conclusions in medias that spread country wide (i.e.- USA Today, CNN etc...) and not just their campus paper.


Not sure it's gonna change the publics veiw of us any more; but it sure can't hurt us.
Seems the majority of the public "hate" us because we are so big and "in their way"-----but, yes, there are those that think we are the scum of the earth, and for some reason, think we are bone'n whores and pop'n veins.

I'm not sure there is ever going to be a "remody" for how the public veiw us------but I sure do get offended when they veiw us as scum.......I am happily married, and devoted to my wife now for 22 years (that includes my entire 15 years in trucking), and their are litteraly 100's of thousands of other drivers just like me. I wish the public would/could see that.


The study completes in September 2008, I'm going to try and follow it........and see where and how they publish their results------if it isn't Nationaly, I intend to write a letter and demand the results be recognized by National media (since this is a dot-gov web site). Don't know if it'll do any good......but we'll see.

You know for a FACT, if the results came back in a negative veiw of the industry it would be all over the news for months to follow.

Now I'm interested instead of offended.:brightidea: