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NCT Number: NCT06910462

Reporting Back Pesticide Results to Family Child Care Home Directors

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Pesticide Exposure Community-based Family

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

UCSF School of Nursing

San Francisco, California, 94143, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Integrated pest management (IPM) practices

Behavioral

Provide IPM resources to family child care home directors along with information about their exposure to pesticides and use of pesticides to lower their health risks.

Other names: Reduce use of pesticides to lower health risks

Primary outcomes

  1. IPM practices

    Time frame: one year

    Increased IPM practices as identified on the standardized, observational IPM Checklist post-intervention.

  2. Decrease Pesticide Use and Exposure in Family Child Care Home

    Time frame: 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 outcomes

  1. Increased understanding of health risks associated with pesticide use

    Time frame: 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Registry information

Official study title

IPM Intervention for Family Child Care Home Directors

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Apr 4, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 30, 2026

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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