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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
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Information provided by: | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00285532 |
The purpose of this project is to help families and communities identify and reduce health risks from lead, pesticides and, ultimately, other environmental hazards. We have partnered with the Better Housing League and Baby’s Milk Fund in Cincinnati and nationally with the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and the National Center for Lead Safe Housing. The first specific aim of this project is to evaluate a sampling kit for families to assess levels of lead and pesticides in their home environment. This aim will strengthen right-to-know laws by providing families with tools to assess environmental contamination in their own homes. The second aim is to increase community awareness of the role of environmental agents in developmental disorders, hearing loss and school problems.
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Lead Poisoning |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Screening, Cross-Sectional, Random Sample, Prospective Study |
Estimated Enrollment: | 150 |
Study Start Date: | October 2001 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | March 2006 |
A cross-sectional random, stratified study design will be used for this project. All children who are younger than 5 years of age and have a venipuncture blood sample taken at the babies Milk Fund Clinic will be eligible for this study. After checking the lists for errors and duplications, we will randomly permute the sampling frame, stratifying on children’s blood lead concentration. Stratification will be used to enroll about 33% of the sample with blood lead concentrations below 5 mg/dl, 33% between 5 to 10 mg/dl, and 33% of 10 mg/dl or higher. Stratifying the sample will improve our chances of testing the predictive validity of home sampling kits to identify children who have blood lead concentration > 10 mg/dl collected by families. In addition this study will:
Ages Eligible for Study: | 3 Months to 5 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Venous blood lead In residence 3 months Child less than 5 years of age Sampler greater than 18 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
Cannot read or understand English Physically unable to conduct field sampling Outside of theGreater Cincinnati area
Contact: Sandy M Roda, BS | 513-558-1705 | rodasm@ucmail.uc.edu |
Contact: Bruce P Lanphear, MD, MPH | 513-636-3778 | bruce.lanphear@cchmc.org |
United States, Ohio | |
University of Cincinnati | Recruiting |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45267-0056 |
Principal Investigator: | Sandy M Roda, BS | University of Cincinnati |
Study ID Numbers: | 11261-CP-002 |
Study First Received: | February 1, 2006 |
Last Updated: | February 1, 2006 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00285532 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Blood Lead Pesticides Community-based Sampling Kits |
Lead Poisoning Poisoning Disorders of Environmental Origin |