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2001 Progress Report: Community-Based Participatory Research Project
EPA Grant Number: R826886C003Subproject: this is subproject number 003 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R826886
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: University of Washington
Center Director: Faustman, Elaine
Title: Community-Based Participatory Research Project
Investigators: Faustman, Elaine
Institution: University of Washington
EPA Project Officer: Fields, Nigel
Project Period: August 1, 1998 through December 31, 2003
Project Period Covered by this Report: August 1, 2000 through July 31,2001
Project Amount: Refer to main center abstract for funding details.
RFA: Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (1998)
Research Category: Health Effects , Children's Health
Description:
Objective:The overall goal of this project is to reduce pesticide exposure in children of farm workers in the Yakima valley of Washington State by breaking the pesticide “take-home” pathway. The specific aims are to: (1) develop a culturally appropriate intervention to break the pesticide take-home pathway; (2) conduct a randomized, controlled community trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention as assessed by examining as the primary outcome changes in the urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites of children between the ages of two and five who reside with farm workers; and (3) assess the secondary effects of the intervention by examining changes in pesticide concentrations in house dust in the residential environments of farm workers; changes in the urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites of farm workers; and changes in self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and practices of farm workers regarding protection from pesticide exposure for children.
Progress Summary:The Community Intervention Project (CIP) comprises two groups in three different locations that work together to conduct the community intervention portion of the Child Health Center (CHC). Group 1 is based at the University of Washington (UW) Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center, and Group 2 is based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and the “field location” at Sunnyside, Washington. The activities of the researchers located at UW are described below.
In Year 1 the CIP-UW group worked with the CIP-FHCRC group to ensure that proper laboratory methods were employed in the collection of urine and dust samples from farm workers and their homes and automobiles. Year 2 and 3 activities were devoted primarily to analysis of urine and dust samples, and statistical analysis of these data. This work has resulted in a Master’s Thesis written by Cynthia Curl. The CIP’s work was closely coordinated with the CHC Exposure Assessment Core.
Journal Articles on this Report: 2 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
| Other subproject views: | All 3 publications | 3 publications in selected types | All 3 journal articles |
| Other center views: | All 83 publications | 51 publications in selected types | All 47 journal articles |
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Curl CL, Fenske RA, Kissel JC, Shirai JH, Moate TW, Griffith W, Coronado G, Thompson B. Evaluation of take-home organophosphorus pesticide exposure among agricultural workers and their children. Environmental Health Perspectives 2002;110(12):A787-A792. |
R826886C003 (2001) R826886C003 (2002) R826886C004 (2001) R826886C004 (2002) R831709 (2005) |
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Thompson B, Coronado G, Puschel K, Allen E. Identifying constituents to participate in a project to control pesticide exposure in children of farmworkers. Environmental Health Perspectives 2001;109(Suppl 3):443-448. |
R826886C003 (2001) R826886C003 (2002) R826886C004 (2001) R826886C004 (2002) R831709 (2005) |
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, Toxics, Geographic Area, Scientific Discipline, Health, RFA, Risk Assessments, Health Risk Assessment, Children's Health, Biochemistry, pesticides, Environmental Chemistry, State, exposure assessment, health effects, Washington (WA), intervention, environmental toxicant, assessment of exposure, farmworkers, harmful environmental agents, agricultural community, exposure pathways, pesticide exposure, biological response, children, environmental risks, environmental health hazard, pesticide residue, human exposure
Relevant Websites:
http://depts.washington.edu/chc/
Progress and Final Reports:
2000 Progress Report
Original Abstract
2002 Progress Report
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R826886 University of Washington
Subprojects under this Center:
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R826886C001 Molecular Mechanisms of Pesticide-Induced Developmental Toxicity
R826886C002 Genetic Susceptibility to Pesticides (Paraoxonase Polymorphism or PON1 Study)
R826886C003 Community-Based Participatory Research Project
R826886C004 Pesticide Exposure Pathways Research Project