Monitoring Environmental Exposures and Behavioral Change

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Environmental Exposure; Risk Behavior, Health; Risk Reduction

Treatments: Device: Real-Time Exposure Feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05338242

R21NArapaho

R21ES032137 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to examine what effect real-time feedback on particulate matter (PM) air pollution levels has on risk recognition and behavior. The hypothesis is that real-time exposure feedback will change perceptions of risk and increase behaviors that avoid exposure to environmental risks. At least one representative household member in participating households will complete a questionnaire to fully understand environmental concerns, risk perceptions, and related behaviors. Half of the households will have PM monitors that continuously display real-time concentrations and an indication of the hazard level. The other participants will have the same device but it will only display the date and time. All participants will then be surveyed again: (a) immediately after sampling is complete (i.e., when the devices are removed from the home), (b) after 3 months and, (c) after 6 months. The goal of repeated surveys is to determine changing understanding of risks, how participating in research and/or receiving real-time exposure data may have changed participant behavior, and what concerns they continue to have. The questionnaire will include questions with categorical and/or quantitative answers (e.g., frequency of specific behaviors) so that changes in risk perception and behavior can be effectively analyzed.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Participants must live in a household where at least one adult is a member of the N. Arapaho tribe who is a Primary Participant in the related exposure assessment study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Real-Time Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive real-time exposure monitors that continuously display real-time air concentration information and a color-coded designation for the current risk level.

Treatment:

Device: Real-Time Exposure Feedback

No Feedback

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will have exposure levels monitored by the same device, but it will only display the date/time and will not provide real-time feedback.