Reporting Back Pesticide Results to Family Child Care Home Directors

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Pesticide Exposure; Community-based; Family

• Registration Number: NCT06910462
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2025-03-13
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-04-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-02
• Study First Posted: 2025-04-04
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-04
• Study Start: 2025-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2028-04-02
• Study Completion: 2028-04-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
IPM practices	one year	Increased IPM practices as identified on the standardized, observational IPM Checklist post-intervention.
Decrease Pesticide Use and Exposure in Family Child Care Home	one year	Observational checklists will be used to identify the number of pesticide sprays in the family child care home. Carpet dust analyses conducted by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will identify the detection and concentration of pesticides in the carpet dust.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increased understanding of health risks associated with pesticide use	one year	Qualitative analyses will be conducted on the director interviews to identify themes and knowledge of the health risks associated with pesticide use, alternative treatments, IPM approach to pest management comparing pre- versus post-intervention responses.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UCSF School of Nursing; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States