Laurentian U researcher shares study findings on miners living with COPD, calls for education and advocacy
Miners in Northern Ontario who’ve been diagnosed with workplace-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease say they’ve faced an uphill battle trying to get compensation from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board .
“It brings awareness that the main challenges for occupational COPD are workplace hazards, a lack of early detection, and the constraints toward recognizing COPD as an occupational disease.” For her qualitative study — “Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : the impact of occupational hazards in the minerals industry” — Mongeau interviewed 16 underground miners between the ages of 54 and 83 who worked in mines in Sudbury, Timmins, Kirkland Lake, and Matachewan, who had all been diagnosed with COPD.Qualitative research involves collecting non-numerical data — such as participant stories — to get better insight into a topic.
If they did fill out the paperwork, some said the claim was rejected anyway, because they hadn’t been “exposed enough,” based on the formula devised by the WSIB to determine if a worker qualified, Mongeau said. “And what I can tell you is even though I did telephone interviews, I could hear the emotion coming through my interviews, and in fact there were a couple of the workers who actually were quite emotional that they broke down.”One is the importance of taking a patient’s occupational history in making a diagnosis. Learning that a patient has worked in a mine could help a physician make the connection between their occupation and COPD, she said.
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