Reporting Back Pesticide Results to Family Child Care Home Directors

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Community-based; Family; Pesticide Exposure

Treatments: Behavioral: Integrated pest management (IPM) practices

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06910462

R01ES036261-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

4000 317300 144257A 01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Child Care Health Consultants will provide an integrated pest management (IPM) intervention for ~30 family child care home directors. The intervention will include an educational component, collecting carpet dust samples, reporting back the pesticides identified in the carpet, and 7-monthly consultations to identify ways to reduce their exposure to pesticides and lower their long term health risks.

Full description

The 12-month IPM intervention study conducted in family child care homes will include baseline and post-intervention interviews with the family child care home director, surveys, environmental assessments, and carpet dust samples. The intervention will include an IPM educational meeting where the director will receive an IPM Toolkit and toolbox, learn about the health risks related to repeated pesticide use. Six monthly consultations will be provided to focus on the goals set by the director to increase their IPM practices, reduce their use of pesticides, and lower the health risks for the children in their care, themselves and their staff. Three months after baseline, study staff will share the results of the pesticides detected in the dust samples to individual family child care home directors using Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI). Interviews throughout the study period will be conducted with the family child care home directors to explore their reactions to and understanding of results, health effects, decisions made, intention to change pest management strategies, and/or share the results with families and their community.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Director of a family child care home with 5 or more children in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, or Fresno County in California. Plan to stay open for at least 12 months.

Exclusion Criteria: Does not read or speak English or Spanish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Integrated Pest Management and Report Pesticide Exposure

Experimental group

Description:

Provide integrated pest management (IPM) toolkit and results of dust sample identifying pesticide exposure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Integrated pest management (IPM) practices