Social Network Based Intervention to Reduce Lead Exposure Among Native American Children

Lead Poisoning Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00011661
• Other study ID #: 8755-CP-001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 26, 2001
• Last updated: September 1, 2006
• Start date: June 2000
• Est. completion date: August 2005

Study information

• Verified date: September 2006
• Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether adding an inter-generational component to an existing social network-based lay health advisor intervention increases its effectiveness in mobilizing a Native American community to respond to heavy metal contamination from lead and zinc mining.

Description:

Ottawa County, Oklahoma, the site of the research, was heavily mined for zinc and lead in the first half of this century. Mine tailings containing heavy metals are stored in large piles up to 200 feet in height. Ottawa County is home to 8 Indian tribes and much of the mine waste is on tribal land. Specifically, the study will: a) integrate existing Native American youth programs with the existing lay health advisor intervention (Society of Clan Mothers and Fathers) to form an inter-generational intervention, b) expand the existing lay health advisor intervention to address cadmium in addition to lead, c) use participatory research methods to involve tribal youth and adults in an air monitoring study, d) assess the extent to which the intervention contributes to belief, attitude and behavior changes that will reduce heavy metal exposure and absorption in Native American children; and e) assess the contribution of the intervention to creating changes in organizational, community, tribal and government (city, county, state, federal) capacity to address heavy metal contamination in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: August 2005
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 1 Year to 6 Years

Eligibility

Children ages 1-6

Live in Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Lead Poisoning
• Poisoning

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Education on behaviors to reduce lead exposure

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Wyandotte Nation	Wyandotte	Oklahoma

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,