Status:

COMPLETED

National Survey of Lead and Allergen Hazards in Housing

Lead Sponsor:

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Conditions:

Asthma

Allergy

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Brief Summary

We propose to conduct a scientifically valid, descriptive survey to measure the prevalence and levels of lead in dust, soil, and paint, and the prevalence and levels of various indoor allergens in flo...

Detailed Description

We propose to conduct a scientifically valid, descriptive survey to measure the prevalence and levels of lead in dust, soil, and paint, and the prevalence and levels of various indoor allergens in flo...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:
  • The target population for the Survey is the national housing stock of approximately 95 million housing units.
  • The decision to include or exclude a subset is usually based on such factors as relevancy to the study objectives, availability of data from other sources, and effort required to obtain the study data.
  • None of the possible housing type exclusion or oversampling proposals are based upon gender, race, ethnic, cultural, or biological factors.
  • Housing built after 1977.
  • Housing units in multi-family buildings.
  • Manufactured housing units, i.e., mobile homes and trailers.
  • EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
  • Housing where children are not permitted to live (elderly housing, nursing homes, college dormitories, etc.).
  • Group housing - both institutional (prisons or jails, detention centers, hospitals, military housing, etc.) and non-institutional (dormitories, fraternities, orphanages, rooming houses, missions, work camps, convents, etc.).
  • Vacant housing.
  • Short-term housing. This category includes homes which are not the resident's sole or permanent home, and which the resident present at the time of field data collection spends less than three months per year. This includes seasonal, occasional use, recreational, and second homes, as well as homes for migrant workers.
  • Hotels and motels.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    June 30 1998

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    August 31 1999

    Estimated Enrollment :

    831 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00339573

    Start Date

    June 30 1998

    End Date

    August 31 1999

    Last Update

    October 8 2020

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    NIEHS, Research Triangle Park

    Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States, 27709