Community Intervention

Beti Thompson, Study Director
Rich Fenske, Investigator
Gloria Coronado, Investigator

The overall goal of this study is to reduce pesticide exposure in children of farm workers in the Yakima Valley of Washington state, by breaking the pesticide "take-home" pathway.

Click here to download educational materials from For Healthy Kids!/¡Para Niños Saludables!, CHC's intervention group.

Specific Aims

  • Develop a culturally appropriate intervention to break the pesticide take-home pathway.
  • Conduct a randomized, controlled community trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention as assessed by examining as the primary outcome changes in the urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites of children between the ages of two and five who reside with farm workers.
  • Assess the secondary effects of the intervention by examining changes in pesticide concentrations in house dust in the residential environments of farm workers; changes in the urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites of farm workers; and changes in self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and practices of farm workers regarding protection.

For more information about the work of the Community Intervention study, please see our Publications page or contact the study director, Dr. Beti Thompson.

You can also learn more about the impact of our work by downloading a copy of our report "Research into Action."

Photo Red delicious apple on a tree in the Yakima Valley, WA—Doug Wilson, USDA.
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences | School of Public Health & Community Medicine University of Washington

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