Radon on the RADAR

雷达上的氡气

• 批准号: 9887193
• 负责人: Ellen J Hahn
• 金额: $ 58.59万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-20 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9887193
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Advocate; Awareness; Back; Charcoal; Collaborations; Communities; County; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Detection; Disease; Effectiveness; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; Equipment; Feedback; Gases; Geological Survey; Geology; Geoscience; Health; Home environment; Information Dissemination; Kentucky; Knowledge; Libraries; Low income; Maintenance; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Maps; Marketing; Measurement; Monitor; Outcome; Precipitation; Procedures; Property; Provider; Radar; Radon; Reporting; Risk; Rural; Rural Community; Sampling; Self Efficacy; Smoking; Soil; Technology; Temperature; Testing; Time; Tobacco smoke; Training; Translating; atmospheric conditions; base; cancer risk; citizen science; cost; design; detector; digital; environmental tobacco smoke exposure; health literacy; improved; information seeking behavior; interest; member; novel; programs; time use; usability; web site

ABSTRACT Kentucky's high radon potential and high smoking rates create the perfect storm for the overrepresentation of lung cancer cases. Our transdisciplinary, community-academic team-led project, Radon on the RADAR (Residents Acting to Detect and Alleviate Radon) will address community concerns about lung cancer by identifying geological and atmospheric conditions that increase radon intrusion into homes, translating this knowledge into greater residential awareness of risk, enabling home radon testing and report back, and growing access to affordable and adequate radon mitigation. We will team geologists with citizen scientists to determine how new radon detection technology (i.e., Airthings) compares to traditional charcoal kits and outdoor soil radon measurements over a range of atmospheric and geological conditions to close a critical knowledge gap in our understanding of radon risk. The study will build capacity in environmental health by: (a) training citizens in rigorous data collection and interpretation of findings; (b) engaging these citizen scientists in creating and promoting library loan programs to increase radon testing; and (c) creating sustainable environmental health action plans to alleviate radon exposure in rural communities. Our overall hypothesis is that by increasing knowledge on how geological and atmospheric conditions can impact radon, partnering with citizen scientists to use new radon detection technology and translate the data, and by growing access to low-cost radon mitigation, we will reduce radon risk. Aim 1 will use a citizen science approach to identify and train 60 community residents in four KY counties to test for radon and evaluate change in environmental health literacy (EHL) and self-efficacy. Aim 2 will compare indoor home radon values and soil radon values over time, controlling for atmospheric conditions, seasonality, geology, topography, and smoking in the home. Aim 3 will create and evaluate a pilot radon detector library loan program with 400 homeowners in the four counties. Aim 4 will launch the radon detector loan program and examine changes in home testing and accessing geologically based radon potential maps. Aim 5 will examine the impact of citizen scientist-led radon coalitions on reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance, and environmental health literacy. The RADAR study challenges and expands the current environmental health science paradigm by collaborating with geologists and integrating their scientific approach. We will impact community concerns about high lung cancer rates by: 1) transforming radon detection and report back using geoscience and new radon gas detection technology; 2) developing a library-lending approach to increase radon testing; and 3) supporting environmental action by creating and sustaining citizen science-led radon coalitions that share new knowledge and engage health advocates, radon mitigation professionals, policymakers, builders, and developers to promote improved radon management in rural Kentucky.

抽象的 肯塔基州的高ra潜力和高吸烟率为 肺癌病例的过度分别。我们的跨学科，社区学术团队领导的项目， rad在雷达上（居民进行检测和减轻ra）将解决社区问题 关于肺癌，通过鉴定地质和大气条件增加了ra入侵的地质和大气条件 房屋，将这些知识转化为对风险的更大居民意识，从而实现家庭ra测试 并报告回报，并越来越多地获得负担得起和足够的ra可减轻措施。我们将团队地质学家团队 与公民科学家一起确定新的ra检测技术（即播出）与 传统的木炭套件和室外土壤ra尺测量在一系列大气和地质上 在我们对ra风险的理解中缩小关键知识差距的条件。该研究将建立 环境健康的能力作者：（a）培训公民对严格的数据收集和解释 发现; （b）让这些公民科学家参与创建和促进图书馆贷款计划以增加 ra测试； （c）制定可持续的环境健康行动计划，以减轻ra暴露 在农村社区。我们的总体假设是，通过提高有关地质和方式的知识 大气条件会影响ra，与公民科学家合作使用新的ra检测 技术并翻译数据，并通过不断增加低成本ra的访问权限，我们将减少 ra风险。 AIM 1将使用公民科学方法来识别和培训60个社区居民四个 KY县测试ra并评估环境健康素养（EHL）和自我效能感的变化。 AIM 2将比较室内家庭ra的值和土壤ra raweation随时间的时间，以控制大气 在家中的条件，季节性，地质，地形和吸烟。 AIM 3将创建和评估 在四个县中有400名房主的飞行员探测器图书馆贷款计划。 AIM 4将启动 ra探测器贷款计划并检查家庭测试的变化和基于地质的访问 ra势图。 AIM 5将研究公民科学家领导的ra仪的影响， 有效，采用，实施，维护和环境健康素养。雷达 研究挑战并通过与 地质学家并整合他们的科学方法。我们将影响社区对高肺的担忧 癌症发生率：1）使用地球科学和新的ra剂转换ra检测并进行报告 检测技术； 2）开发一种图书馆贷款方法来增加ra测试； 3）支持 通过创建和维持由公民科学领导的伦敦联盟的环境行动，共享新的 知识并参与健康倡导者，缓解专业人员，政策制定者，建筑商以及 开发人员可以促进肯塔基州农村的改善ra管理。