An observational study in Poisoning, Lead, sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 3 Months to 5 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-11-18.
Sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) · Observational
The purpose of this project is to help families and communities identify and reduce health risks from lead, pesticides and, ultimately, other environmental hazards. We have partnered with the Better Housing League and Baby's Milk Fund in Cincinnati and nationally with the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and the National Center for Lead Safe Housing. The first specific aim of this project is to evaluate a sampling kit for families to assess levels of lead and pesticides in their home environment. This aim will strengthen right-to-know laws by providing families with tools to assess environmental contamination in their own homes. The second aim is to increase community awareness of the role of environmental agents in developmental disorders, hearing loss and school problems.
A cross-sectional random, stratified study design will be used for this project. All children who are younger than 5 years of age and have a venipuncture blood sample taken at the babies Milk Fund Clinic will be eligible for this study. After checking the lists for errors and duplications, we will randomly permute the sampling frame, stratifying on children's blood lead concentration. Stratification will be used to enroll about 33% of the sample with blood lead concentrations below 5 mg/dl, 33% between 5 to 10 mg/dl, and 33% of 10 mg/dl or higher. Stratifying the sample will improve our chances of testing the predictive validity of home sampling kits to identify children who have blood lead concentration > 10 mg/dl collected by families. In addition this study will:
27 studies on the registry are indexed under Lead Poisoning; 2 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 150 is below the median of 350 across 14 observational studies indexed under Lead Poisoning.
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Children \<5 years receiving care via Babies Milk Fund Clinics
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Venous blood lead In residence 3 months Child less than 5 years of age Sampler greater than 18 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
Cannot read or understand English Physically unable to conduct field sampling Outside of theGreater Cincinnati area
Lead and Pesticide Levels
Time frame: One time home visit 3-5 days after distribution of kits
This study is completed, as verified in Nov 2014. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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