Pesticide Exposure Pathways for Farmworker Children

Poisoning Clinical Trial

Official title:

Child Environmental Health Center--Reducing Pesticide Exposure in Children of Farmworkers (UW IRB 96-6567-C02, FENSKE, 6/15/00-6/14/01)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00013754
• Other study ID #: 9601-CP-001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 29, 2001
• Last updated: April 13, 2015
• Start date: March 2001
• Est. completion date: October 2003

Study information

• Verified date: April 2015
• Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This project is aimed at better understanding how children living in agricultural environments are exposed to pesticides, and how such exposures can be prevented or reduced. The current project will characterize pesticide exposure pathways for children of farmworkers.

Description:

This project is aimed at better understanding how children living in agricultural environments are exposed to pesticides, and how such exposures can be prevented or reduced. Since 1991 our group has investigated pesticide expsoures among children of agricultural families in Washington state, focusing on exposure to organophosphate insecticides. We have demonstrated in these studies that the residential environments of agricultural families have higher pesticide residues than do other homes in this region. We have also found that children living in these residential environments have elevated levels of pesticide metabolites in their urine. We need to better understand how these children are being exposed in order to develop recomendations for exposure prevention or reduction. The current project will characterize pesticide exposure pathways for children of farmworkers. A complementary project is also underway by the UW-Child Health Center to develop and implement a community-wide intervention to reduce the transfer of pesticides from the workplace to the home (take home pathway).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: October 2003
• Est. primary completion date: October 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 2 Years and older
• Eligibility: Each family recruited must include one child between the ages of 1-5.

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Poisoning

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington	Seattle	Washington

Sponsors (2)

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

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,