Community Based Prevention/Control Project

Poisoning Clinical Trial

Official title:

Child Environmental Health Center--Reducing Pesticide Exposure in Children of Farmworkers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00013767
• Other study ID #: 9601-CP-002
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 29, 2001
• Last updated: April 13, 2015
• Start date: June 1999
• 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: Interventional

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 project will develop and implement a community-wide intervention to reduce the transfer of pesticides from the workplace to the home (take home pathway).

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 develop and implement a community-wide intervention to reduce the transfer of pesticides from the workplace to the home (take home pathway). A complementary project is also underway by the UW-Child Health Center to characterize pesticide exposure pathways for children of farmworkers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: October 2003
• Est. primary completion date: October 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 1 Year and older

Eligibility

Each family recruited must include one child between the ages of 1-5. Recruitment will be confined to the lower Yakima Valley.

Study Design

Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Poisoning

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Individual and Community education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

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