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Polter EJ, Christianson B, Steinberg A, Doan M, Ljungman H, Sundaram ME, VanWormer JJ, Williams CL, McLean HQ, Bendixsen C. Urban and rural healthcare providers' perspectives on HPV vaccination in Minnesota. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2023; 19:2291859. [PMID: 38095606 PMCID: PMC10730133 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2291859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination can dramatically reduce the incidence of HPV-associated cancers. However, HPV vaccination coverage in rural areas is lower than in urban areas, and overall HPV vaccination coverage in the United States remains lower than other adolescent vaccines. We conducted 20 qualitative interviews with adolescent healthcare providers and clinic staff in urban and rural Minnesota and assessed their perspectives on HPV vaccination. Guiding interview topics included: strategies to persuade families to vaccinate their children, the impact of the patient-provider relationship and the clinical environment on vaccination uptake, and provider perceptions of parents' vaccine attitudes. In thematic analysis, all participants reported using common vaccination strategies, such as framing the HPV vaccine in terms of cancer prevention. The analysis also revealed three themes described as occurring uniquely or more intensely in rural communities than urban communities: the rural value of choice or independence, the spread of misinformation, and close-knit, multifaceted patient-provider relationships in clinical practice. Interventions aimed at increasing HPV vaccination should consider the distinctive circumstances of rural healthcare providers and patients.
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- Elizabeth J. Polter
- Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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Lewis JV, Knapp EA, Bakre S, Dickerson AS, Bastain TM, Bendixsen C, Bennett DH, Camargo CA, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Colicino E, D'Sa V, Dabelea D, Deoni S, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Fry RC, Hartert T, Howe CG, Kahn LG, Karagas MR, Ma TF, Koinis-Mitchell D, MacKenzie D, Maldonado LE, Merced-Nieves FM, Neiderhiser JM, Nigra AE, Niu Z, Nozadi SS, Rivera-Núñez Z, O'Connor TG, Osmundson S, Padula AM, Peterson AK, Sherris AR, Starling A, Straughen JK, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Kress AM. Associations between area-level arsenic exposure and adverse birth outcomes: An Echo-wide cohort analysis. Environ Res 2023; 236:116772. [PMID: 37517496 PMCID: PMC10592196 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Drinking water is a common source of exposure to inorganic arsenic. In the US, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was enacted to protect consumers from exposure to contaminants, including arsenic, in public water systems (PWS). The reproductive effects of preconception and prenatal arsenic exposure in regions with low to moderate arsenic concentrations are not well understood. OBJECTIVES This study examined associations between preconception and prenatal exposure to arsenic violations in water, measured via residence in a county with an arsenic violation in a regulated PWS during pregnancy, and five birth outcomes: birth weight, gestational age at birth, preterm birth, small for gestational age (SGA), and large for gestational age (LGA). METHODS Data for arsenic violations in PWS, defined as concentrations exceeding 10 parts per billion, were obtained from the Safe Drinking Water Information System. Participants of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort Study were matched to arsenic violations by time and location based on residential history data. Multivariable, mixed effects regression models were used to assess the relationship between preconception and prenatal exposure to arsenic violations in drinking water and birth outcomes. RESULTS Compared to unexposed infants, continuous exposure to arsenic from three months prior to conception through birth was associated with 88.8 g higher mean birth weight (95% CI: 8.2, 169.5), after adjusting for individual-level confounders. No statistically significant associations were observed between any preconception or prenatal violations exposure and gestational age at birth, preterm birth, SGA, or LGA. CONCLUSIONS Our study did not identify associations between preconception and prenatal arsenic exposure, defined by drinking water exceedances, and adverse birth outcomes. Exposure to arsenic violations in drinking water was associated with higher birth weight. Future studies would benefit from more precise geodata of water system service areas, direct household drinking water measurements, and exposure biomarkers.
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- Jonathan V Lewis
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, SD, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of OB/GYN, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Lee BC, Becot FA, Bendixsen C, Benny C, Lundqvist P, Swenson A, Weichelt B, Franklin RC. Editorial: Safeguarding youth from agricultural injury and illness: international experiences. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1270578. [PMID: 37663839 PMCID: PMC10471958 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1270578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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- Barbara C. Lee
- National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, WI, United States
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, WI, United States
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Wausau, WI, United States
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- Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield, WI, United States
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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Martenies SE, Zhang M, Corrigan AE, Kvit A, Shields T, Wheaton W, Around Him D, Aschner J, Talavera-Barber MM, Barrett ES, Bastain TM, Bendixsen C, Breton CV, Bush NR, Cacho F, Camargo CA, Carroll KN, Carter BS, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Cowell W, Croen LA, Dabelea D, Duarte CS, Dunlop AL, Everson TM, Habre R, Hartert TV, Helderman JB, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Lester BM, LeWinn KZ, Magzamen S, Morello-Frosch R, O’Connor TG, Padula AM, Petriello M, Sathyanarayana S, Stanford JB, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Kress AM. Developing a National-Scale Exposure Index for Combined Environmental Hazards and Social Stressors and Applications to the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:6339. [PMID: 37510572 PMCID: PMC10379099 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20146339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
Abstract
Tools for assessing multiple exposures across several domains (e.g., physical, chemical, and social) are of growing importance in social and environmental epidemiology because of their value in uncovering disparities and their impact on health outcomes. Here we describe work done within the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide Cohort Study to build a combined exposure index. Our index considered both environmental hazards and social stressors simultaneously with national coverage for a 10-year period. Our goal was to build this index and demonstrate its utility for assessing differences in exposure for pregnancies enrolled in the ECHO-wide Cohort Study. Our unitless combined exposure index, which collapses census-tract level data into a single relative measure of exposure ranging from 0-1 (where higher values indicate higher exposure to hazards), includes indicators for major air pollutants and air toxics, features of the built environment, traffic exposures, and social determinants of health (e.g., lower educational attainment) drawn from existing data sources. We observed temporal and geographic variations in index values, with exposures being highest among participants living in the West and Northeast regions. Pregnant people who identified as Black or Hispanic (of any race) were at higher risk of living in a "high" exposure census tract (defined as an index value above 0.5) relative to those who identified as White or non-Hispanic. Index values were also higher for pregnant people with lower educational attainment. Several recommendations follow from our work, including that environmental and social stressor datasets with higher spatial and temporal resolutions are needed to ensure index-based tools fully capture the total environmental context.
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- Sheena E. Martenies
- Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ 07110, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics-Neonatology, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA;
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 41642, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Miller RL, Schuh H, Chandran A, Aris IM, Bendixsen C, Blossom J, Breton C, Camargo CA, Canino G, Carroll KN, Commodore S, Cordero JF, Dabelea DM, Ferrara A, Fry RC, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Gilliland FD, Gold DR, Habre R, Hare ME, Harte RN, Hartert T, Hasegawa K, Khurana Hershey GK, Jackson DJ, Joseph C, Kerver JM, Kim H, Litonjua AA, Marsit CJ, McEvoy C, Mendonça EA, Moore PE, Nkoy FL, O'Connor TG, Oken E, Ownby D, Perzanowski M, Rivera-Spoljaric K, Ryan PH, Singh AM, Stanford JB, Wright RJ, Wright RO, Zanobetti A, Zoratti E, Johnson CC. Incidence rates of childhood asthma with recurrent exacerbations in the US Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023; 152:84-93. [PMID: 36972767 PMCID: PMC10330473 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Descriptive epidemiological data on incidence rates (IRs) of asthma with recurrent exacerbations (ARE) are sparse. OBJECTIVES This study hypothesized that IRs for ARE would vary by time, geography, age, and race and ethnicity, irrespective of parental asthma history. METHODS The investigators leveraged data from 17,246 children born after 1990 enrolled in 59 US with 1 Puerto Rican cohort in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium to estimate IRs for ARE. RESULTS The overall crude IR for ARE was 6.07 per 1000 person-years (95% CI: 5.63-6.51) and was highest for children aged 2-4 years, for Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic Black children, and for those with a parental history of asthma. ARE IRs were higher for 2- to 4-year-olds in each race and ethnicity category and for both sexes. Multivariable analysis confirmed higher adjusted ARE IRs (aIRRs) for children born 2000-2009 compared with those born 1990-1999 and 2010-2017, 2-4 versus 10-19 years old (aIRR = 15.36; 95% CI: 12.09-19.52), and for males versus females (aIRR = 1.34; 95% CI 1.16-1.55). Black children (non-Hispanic and Hispanic) had higher rates than non-Hispanic White children (aIRR = 2.51; 95% CI 2.10-2.99; and aIRR = 2.04; 95% CI: 1.22-3.39, respectively). Children born in the Midwest, Northeast and South had higher rates than those born in the West (P < .01 for each comparison). Children with a parental history of asthma had rates nearly 3 times higher than those without such history (aIRR = 2.90; 95% CI: 2.43-3.46). CONCLUSIONS Factors associated with time, geography, age, race and ethnicity, sex, and parental history appear to influence the inception of ARE among children and adolescents.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc, Boston, Mass
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- Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis, Cambridge, Mass
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- Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Department of Epidemiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- University of Puerto Rico Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- University of Georgia College of Public Health, Athens, Ga
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, Calif
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Heath, Madison, Wis
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- Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass
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- Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tenn
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- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Heath, Madison, Wis
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga
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- Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn
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- School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc, Boston, Mass
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Heath, Madison, Wis
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass
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McGowan EC, McGrath M, Law A, O’Shea TM, Aschner JL, Blackwell CK, Fry RC, Ganiban JM, Higgins R, Margolis A, Sathyanarayana S, Taylor G, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Spillane NT, Hudak ML, Camargo CA, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Ferrara AM, Talavera-Barber M, Singh AM, Karagas MR, Karr C, O’Connor TG, Paneth N, Wright RJ, Wright RO, Cowell W, Stanford JB, Bendixsen C, Lester BM. Health Care Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Individuals Born Preterm. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2310696. [PMID: 37115545 PMCID: PMC10148204 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.10696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Importance Limited data exist on pediatric health care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic among children and young adults born preterm. Objective To investigate differences in health care use related to COVID-19 concerns during the pandemic among children and young adults born preterm vs those born at term. Design, Setting, and Participants In this cohort study, questionnaires regarding COVID-19 and health care utilization were completed by 1691 mother-offspring pairs from 42 pediatric cohorts in the National Institutes of Health Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program. Children and young adults (ages 1-18 years) in these analyses were born between 2003 and 2021. Data were recorded by the August 31, 2021, data-lock date and were analyzed between October 2021 and October 2022. Exposures Premature birth (<37 weeks' gestation). Main Outcomes and Measures The main outcome was health care utilization related to COVID-19 concerns (hospitalization, in-person clinic or emergency department visit, phone or telehealth evaluations). Individuals born preterm vs term (≥37 weeks' gestation) and differences among preterm subgroups of individuals (<28 weeks', 28-36 weeks' vs ≥37 weeks' gestation) were assessed. Generalized estimating equations assessed population odds for health care used and related symptoms, controlling for maternal age, education, and psychiatric disorder; offspring history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) or asthma; and timing and age at COVID-19 questionnaire completion. Results Data from 1691 children and young adults were analyzed; among 270 individuals born preterm, the mean (SD) age at survey completion was 8.8 (4.4) years, 151 (55.9%) were male, and 193 (71.5%) had a history of BPD or asthma diagnosis. Among 1421 comparison individuals with term birth, the mean (SD) age at survey completion was 8.4 (2.4) years, 749 (52.7%) were male, and 233 (16.4%) had a history of BPD or asthma. Preterm subgroups included 159 individuals (58.5%) born at less than 28 weeks' gestation. In adjusted analyses, individuals born preterm had a significantly higher odds of health care utilization related to COVID-19 concerns (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.70; 95% CI, 1.21-2.38) compared with term-born individuals; similar differences were also seen for the subgroup of individuals born at less than 28 weeks' gestation (aOR, 2.15; 95% CI, 1.40-3.29). Maternal history of a psychiatric disorder was a significant covariate associated with health care utilization for all individuals (aOR, 1.44; 95% CI, 1.17-1.78). Conclusions and Relevance These findings suggest that during the COVID-19 pandemic, children and young adults born preterm were more likely to have used health care related to COVID-19 concerns compared with their term-born peers, independent of a history of BPD or asthma. Further exploration of factors associated with COVID-19-related health care use may facilitate refinement of care models.
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- Elisabeth C. McGowan
- The Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
- Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, New Jersey
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- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
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- George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Global and Community Health, College of Health and Human Sciences, George Mason University, Fort Myers, Florida
- Marieb College of Health and Human Services, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- University of Washington, Seattle
- Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, New Jersey
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
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- Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- University Health Center, Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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- Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, Wisconsin
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- The Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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Brennan PA, Dunlop AL, Croen LA, Avalos LA, Salisbury AL, Hipwell AE, Nozadi SS, Sathyanarayana S, Crum RM, Musci R, Li M, Li X, Mansolf M, O'Connor TG, Elliott AJ, Ghildayal N, Lin PID, Sprowles JLN, Stanford JB, Bendixsen C, Ozonoff S, Lester BM, Shuster CL, Huddleston KC, Posner J, Paneth N. Prenatal Antidepressant Exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorder or Traits: A Retrospective, Multi-Cohort Study. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2023; 51:513-527. [PMID: 36417100 PMCID: PMC10150657 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-022-01000-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Prenatal antidepressant exposure has been associated with increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study utilized multi-cohort data from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program (N = 3129) to test for this association, and determine whether the association remained after adjusting for maternal prenatal depression and other potential confounders. Antidepressants and a subset of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were examined in relation to binary (e.g., diagnostic) and continuous measures of ASD and ASD related traits (e.g., social difficulties, behavior problems) in children 1.5 to 12 years of age. Child sex was tested as an effect modifier. While prenatal antidepressant exposure was associated with ASD related traits in univariate analyses, these associations were statistically non-significant in models that adjusted for prenatal maternal depression and other maternal and child characteristics. Sex assigned at birth was not an effect modifier for the prenatal antidepressant and child ASD relationship. Overall, we found no association between prenatal antidepressant exposures and ASD diagnoses or traits. Discontinuation of antidepressants in pregnancy does not appear to be warranted on the basis of increased risk for offspring ASD.
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- Patricia A Brennan
- Psychology Department, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Health Sciences Center University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Avera Research Institute, Dept of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, ICF, Urbana, Durham, IL, NC, USA
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- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MIND Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA
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- College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Comi M, Becot F, Bendixsen C. Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:4778. [PMID: 36981685 PMCID: PMC10049460 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20064778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In this review, we first assess the state of agricultural health and safety research as it pertains to the dynamic challenges facing automating agriculture on a warming planet. Then, we turn to social science fields such as rural sociology, science and technology studies, and environmental studies to leverage relevant insights on the introduction of new technologies, environmental risks, and associated workplace hazards. Increased rates of automation in agriculture alongside new risks associated with climate change create the need for anticipatory governance and adaptive research to study novel mechanisms of worker health and safety. The use of the PRISMA framework led to the 137 articles for our review. We identify three themes in the literature on agricultural health and safety: (1) adoption outcomes, (2) discrete cases of health risks, and (3) an emphasis on care and wellbeing in literature on dairy automation Our review led to the identification of research gaps, noting that current research (a) tends to examine these forces separately, instead of together, (b) has not made robust examination of these forces as socially embedded, and (c) has hesitated to examine the broad, transferable themes for how these forces work across industries. In response to these gaps, we suggest that attention to outside disciplines may provide agricultural health and safety research with a toolset to examine needed inquiry into the multiplicity of experiences of rural stakeholders, the industry specific problems arising from automation and climate change, and the socially embedded aspects of agricultural work in the future.
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McCauley KE, Rackaityte E, LaMere B, Fadrosh DW, Fujimura KE, Panzer AR, Lin DL, Lynch KV, Halkias J, Mendoza VF, Burt TD, Bendixsen C, Barnes K, Kim H, Jones K, Ownby DR, Johnson CC, Seroogy CM, Gern JE, Boushey HA, Lynch SV. Heritable vaginal bacteria influence immune tolerance and relate to early-life markers of allergic sensitization in infancy. Cell Rep Med 2022; 3:100713. [PMID: 35932762 PMCID: PMC9418802 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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Maternal asthma status, prenatal exposures, and infant gut microbiota perturbation are associated with heightened risk of atopy and asthma risk in childhood, observations hypothetically linked by intergenerational microbial transmission. Using maternal vaginal (n = 184) and paired infant stool (n = 172) samples, we identify four compositionally and functionally distinct Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiota clusters (VCs) that relate to prenatal maternal health and exposures and infant serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) status at 1 year. Variance in bacteria shared between mother and infant pairs relate to VCs, maternal allergy/asthma status, and infant IgE levels. Heritable bacterial gene pathways associated with infant IgE include fatty acid synthesis and histamine and tryptophan degradation. In vitro, vertically transmitted Lactobacillus jensenii strains induce immunosuppressive phenotypes on human antigen-presenting cells. Murine supplementation with L. jensenii reduces lung eosinophils, neutrophilic expansion, and the proportion of interleukin-4 (IL-4)+ CD4+ T cells. Thus, bacterial and atopy heritability are intimately linked, suggesting a microbial component of intergenerational disease transmission.
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- Kathryn E McCauley
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Process Development, PACT Pharma, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Neonatology and the Children's Health and Discovery Initiative, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA
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- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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Brownell J, Lee K, Gangnon R, Bendixsen C, Barnes K, Dresen A, Seroogy C, Gern J. Farm exposure and rates of early life respiratory illness and wheeze. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.12.295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Seibold M, Moore C, Everman J, Williams B, Nolin J, Fairbanks-Mahnke A, Plender E, Patel B, Arbes S, Bacharier L, Bendixsen C, Calatroni A, Camargo C, Dupont W, Furuta G, Gebretsadik T, Gruchalla R, Gupta R, Hershey GK, Murrison L, Jackson D, Johnson C, Kattan M, Liu A, Lussier S, O’Connor G, River-Spoljaric K, Phipatanakul W, Rothenberg M, Seroogy C, Teach S, Zoratti E, Togias A, Fulkerson P, Hartert T. SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in households with and without asthmatic/allergic children: The Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2 study (HEROS). J Allergy Clin Immunol 2022. [PMCID: PMC8804438 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.12.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Becot F, Bendixsen C, Barnes K, Rudolphi J. Broadening Our Understanding of Farm Children's Risk Exposure by Considering Their Parents' Farming Background. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:5218. [PMID: 34068923 PMCID: PMC8156763 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18105218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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While farm safety researchers have seldom considered the association between farm parents' background and their children's safety, researchers who have compared first- and multi-generation farmers have found differences that may shape safety outcomes. We draw on the farm safety and family farm bodies of literature and a survey of 203 United States farm parents to assess the role of farming background in farm children risk exposure. Exploratory in nature, the bivariate analysis revealed no statistically significant differences between first- and multi-generation farmers in children injury, agricultural safety perceptions, knowledge, and practices but revealed differences in key demographic characteristics and parenting styles. A range of factors likely explain these findings with meso- and macro-level factors likely impacting farm parents' ability to adopt safety practices. In contrast to the emphasis on knowledge and behaviors, we call for the integration of lived realities in farm safety research and to do so in a way that connects realities and choices to larger contexts. We also call on the need to expand the toolkit of interventions to address meso- and macro-level factors. A shift towards addressing social and economic conditions in agriculture could reduce farm children's injuries while supporting the sustainability of farm labor systems.
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- Florence Becot
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA; (C.B.); (K.B.)
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA; (C.B.); (K.B.)
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA; (C.B.); (K.B.)
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- Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;
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HighlightsOver a third of respondents (34.3%) reported a child agricultural injury.About 41% of parents were classified as authoritative (high level of involvement and control), 35.7% as uninvolved, 13.3% as permissive, and 10% as authoritarian.In our sample of farm parents, authoritative parenting is protective against risk-taking behaviors in childhood as well as reducing potential injury among children.Abstract. Four distinct parenting styles have been described: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. Parenting styles have been associated with a myriad of child safety and health outcomes. However, the association between parenting style and child agricultural injury has not been explored. This study was conducted among farm parents in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania using a self-administered paper questionnaire. Parents responded to items inquiring about parenting styles, previous child agricultural injuries, personal demographics, and farm characteristics. A total of 238 farm parents responded to the survey. Over a third of respondents (34.3%) reported a child agricultural injury. About 41% of parents were classified as authoritative (demonstrating a high level of involvement and control), 35.7% as uninvolved, 13.3% as permissive, and 10% as authoritarian. In the univariable analyses of parenting style, notable elevations in child injury rates occurred for the authoritarian (RR = 1.96, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.08 to 3.58, p = 0.0274) and uninvolved (RR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.00 to 2.50, p = 0.0506) categories as compared to the referent category of authoritative. In the multivariable analyses that were adjusted for confounding variables, the magnitude of the corresponding RR estimates were less dramatic, although a 69% elevation was still present for the authoritarian parenting style (RR = 1.69, 95% CI 0.91 to 3.15, p = 0.0975). The results of this study contribute to the growing body of literature suggesting that authoritative parenting is protective against risk-taking behaviors in childhood as well as reducing potential injury among children. Clinicians and safety experts should consider parenting styles when developing child agricultural injury prevention resources or interventions. Keywords: Children, Health, Injury prevention, Parenting styles, Safety.
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Pate ML, Moyer N, Gorucu S, Bendixsen C. JA:2021-22. Digital Migration: Will Digital Technologies Transform Hazard Risk Assessment among an Emerging Agricultural Workforce? J Agromedicine 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2020.1765573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Michael L. Pate
- Agricultural Systems Technology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
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- Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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Social media use in public health and other health related research applications has seen a rapid increase in recent years. However, there has been very limited utilization of this growing digital sector in agricultural injury research. Social media offers immense potential in gathering informal data, both text and images, converting them into knowledge, which can open up avenues for research, policy, and practice. There are a number of ways social media data can be utilized in agricultural injury research. This paper touches on the adoption of these data sources in health research and discusses the use of social media as an exploratory research tool that can peer into and identify the edges of potential health and safety problems.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Department of Health Informatics and Administration, UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, USA
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Becot F, Inwood S, Bendixsen C, Henning-Smith C. Health Care and Health Insurance Access for Farm Families in the United States during COVID-19: Essential Workers without Essential Resources? J Agromedicine 2020; 25:374-377. [DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2020.1814924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Florence Becot
- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, OH, USA
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, USA
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- Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Children are commonly and often fatally injured in agricultural settings that include family farms, constituting fully half of all working youth fatalities in the United States. Yet certain aspects of farm life that expose children to harm are also linked to positive health outcomes, a phenomenon that this essay terms "the farm kid paradox." It reviews applied anthropological research on the differential intertwining of health and hazard, and reflects on the role of the anthropologist as a broker of facts and concepts between diverse stakeholders and farm environments.
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Eysenbach G, Bendixsen C, Patrick T. A Model for Assessing Necessary Conditions for Rural Health Care's Mobile Health Readiness: Qualitative Assessment of Clinician-Perceived Barriers. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019; 7:e11915. [PMID: 31702564 PMCID: PMC6874803 DOI: 10.2196/11915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Mobile health (mHealth) technology dissemination has penetrated rural and urban areas alike. Yet, health care organization oversight and clinician adoption have not kept pace with patient use. mHealth could have a unique impact on health and quality of life for rural populations. If organizations are prepared to manage mHealth, clinicians may improve the quality of care for their patients, both rural and urban. However, many organizations are not yet prepared to prescribe or prohibit third-party mHealth technologies. OBJECTIVE This study explored organizational readiness for rural mHealth adoption, the use of patient-reported data by clinical care teams, and potential impact on improving rural health care delivery. METHODS Semistructured, open-ended interviews were used to investigate clinicians' current practices, motivators, and perceived barriers to their use of mHealth technologies in rural settings. RESULTS A total of 13 clinicians were interviewed, and 53.8% (7/13) reported encouraging use of mHealth apps or wearable devices with rural patients. Perceived barriers to adoption were categorized into three primary themes: (1) personal (clinician), (2) patient, and (3) organizational. Organizational was most prominent, with subcodes of time, uniformity, and policy or direction. Thematic analysis revealed code-category linkages that identify the complex nature of a rural health care organization's current climate from a clinician's perspective. A thematic map was developed to visualize the flow from category to code. Identified linkages guided the development of a refined rural mHealth readiness model. CONCLUSIONS Clinicians (including physicians) have limited time for continuing education, research, or exploration of emerging technologies. Clinicians are motivated to learn more, but they need guidance through organization-led directives. Rural health care institutions should consider investing in mHealth analysis, tool development, and formal recommendations of sanctioned tools for clinicians to use with patients.
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Health Informatics, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Weichelt B, Heimonen T, Gorucu S, Redmond E, Vechinski J, Pflughoeft K, Bendixsen C, Salzwedel M, Scott E, Namkoong K, Purschwitz M, Rautiainen R, Murphy DJ. Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study. JMIR Form Res 2019; 3:e13621. [PMID: 31376278 PMCID: PMC6696853 DOI: 10.2196/13621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Injury data and reports provide valuable information for both public and private organizations to guide programming, policy, and prevention, but in the increasingly complex and dangerous industry of US agriculture, the injury surveillance needed to produce this data is lacking. To address the gap, AgInjuryNews was established in 2015. The system includes fatal and nonfatal injury cases derived from publicly available reports, including occupational and nonoccupational injuries, occurring in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing (AFF) industry. Objective The study aimed to develop a stakeholder-engaged redesign of the interactive, up-to-date, and publicly available dataset of US AFF injury and fatality reports. Methods Instructor-led heuristic evaluations within a 15-student undergraduate course, data from 8 student participants of laboratory-based usability testing and 2016 and 2017 AgInjuryNews-registered user surveys, coupled with input from the National Steering Committee informed the development priorities for 2018. An interdisciplinary team employed an agile methodology of 2-week sprints developing in ASP.NET and Structured Query Language to deliver an intuitive frontend and a flexible, yet structured, backend, including a case report input form for capturing more than 50 data points on each injury report. Results AgInjuryNews produced 17,714 page views from 43 countries in 2018 captured via Google Analytics, whereas 623 injury reports were coded and loaded, totaling more than 31,000 data points. Newly designed features include customizable email alerts, an interactive map, and expanded search and filter options. User groups such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America have endorsed the system within their networks. News media have cited or referenced the system in national outlets such as the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post. Conclusions The new system’s features, functions, and improved data granularity have sparked innovative lines of research and increased collaborative interest domestically and abroad. It is anticipated that this nontraditional sentinel surveillance system and its dataset will continue to serve many purposes for public and private agricultural safety and health stakeholders in the years to come.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- Department of Computing and New Media Technologies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- Marshfield Clinic Information Services, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- Department of Computing and New Media Technologies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY, United States
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- Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
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- Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
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Weichelt B, Heimonen T, Pilz M, Yoder A, Bendixsen C. An Argument Against Cross-Platform Development: Lessons From an Augmented Reality App Prototype for Rural Emergency Responders. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019; 7:e12207. [PMID: 30920380 PMCID: PMC6458533 DOI: 10.2196/12207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mobile augmented reality (MAR) apps offer potential support for emergency responders in rural areas. OBJECTIVE In this report, we described lessons learned from the development process of augmented reality (AR) Farm Mapping to Assist, Protect and Prepare Emergency Responders (MAPPER), a MAR app that provides emergency responders onsite information about the agricultural operation they enter. METHODS Cross-platform frameworks were used to create AR MAPPER to accommodate budget constraints and overcome issues with markerless MAR technologies. Although the single codebase and Web technologies streamlined development, cross-device hardware limitations impacted location accuracy, lengthened the development cycle, and required regular updates to third-party libraries. RESULTS A hybrid development approach of using Web-based technologies with native tie-ins for specialized components and enhanced performance cut time and costs. This also led to consistency across multiple platforms and ensured that there is only a single set of source files to modify for Android and iPhone operating systems. Meanwhile, active development was delayed by some major hurdles. Apple and Google both released new versions of their operating systems, and the Wikitude framework issued four major updates, each of which brought with it some important enhancements and also led to some new issues. CONCLUSIONS Developers should consider single platform native development to benefit from platform-specific MAR implementations and to avoid development, testing, and maintenance costs associated with cross-platform implementation. Emergency response organizations may be more likely to utilize a single platform across the devices used by their command staff. This also reduces the benefits of cross-platform development. Furthermore, providing map-based, non-AR cross-platform apps for landowners, farmers, and ranchers would help improve and maintain data quality, which is crucial for the utility and user experience of MAR apps.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States
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- Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE, United States
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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Weichelt B, Bendixsen C, Keifer M. Farm Owners and Workers as Key Informants in User-Centered Occupational Health Prototype Development: A Stakeholder-Engaged Project. J Med Internet Res 2019; 21:e9711. [PMID: 30694202 PMCID: PMC6371074 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The cost of workplace injuries and illnesses significantly impacts the overall cost of health care and is a significant annual economic burden in the United States. Many dairy and pork farm owners in the Upper Midwest have expanded operations and taken on the role of manager and employer yet receive little training in injury prevention, farm safety, or workers' compensation programs and processes. Clinicians play a key role in the return to work of injured and ill farmers and farmworkers to their jobs, though little to no formal training is offered by medical schools. OBJECTIVE This stakeholder-engaged project aimed to develop a prototype application designed to assist clinicians in returning injured farmworkers to light-duty job assignments with their current employers and to assess farm owners' and managers' attitudes toward and barriers to adopting mobile health tools for themselves or their employees. METHODS We conducted 12 semistructured interviews with English-speaking farm owners and farmworkers from the Upper Midwest: 5 English-speaking and Spanish-speaking farmworker focus groups and 8 postproject interviews with farm owners that focused on attitudes and barriers to adoption of the developed software. Interviews and focus groups were audio recorded, and data were analyzed and thematically coded using audio coding. RESULTS Interviews and worker focus groups guided an iterative design and development cycle, which informed workflow design, button placement, and output sheets that offer specific light-duty farm work recommendations for the injured worker to discuss with his or her employer. CONCLUSIONS The development of a complex prototype intended to impact patient care is a significant undertaking. Reinventing a paper-based process that can eventually integrate with an electronic health record or a private company's human resources system requires substantial stakeholder input from each facet including patients, employers, and clinical care teams. The prototype is available for testing, but further research is needed in the form of clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of the process and the software's impact on patients and employers.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, WI, United States
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- University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans Administration, Seattle, WA, United States
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Weichelt B, Bendixsen C. A Review of 2016-2017 Agricultural Youth Injuries Involving Skid Steers and a Call for Intervention and Translational Research. J Agromedicine 2018; 23:374-380. [PMID: 30230430 DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2018.1501455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Skid steers or loaders are becoming prolific in U.S. agriculture - as are the injuries and fatalities related to their use. A review of incidents as queried in AgInjuryNews from 2016 to 2017 revealed an overrepresentation of youth being involved in these tragic incidents. This raises concerns over parental attitudes and beliefs about the safety of these machines. Skid steer incidents do not appear to be a result from a lack of safety education materials, however. Indeed, manufacturers, the Centers for Disease Control, and many state extension systems have safety manuals and general instruction, including YouTube videos and online resources. Thus, there appears to be a significant gap between safety knowledge and practice. There is also a lack of published research, including intervention strategies, training evaluation, and translational/implementation studies specific to skid steer machines. This review of youth incidents is therefore also a call for further research for foundational studies regarding attitudes and behaviors involving skid steers in agriculture, intervention models, and efforts to translate prevention knowledge beyond the existing materials.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- a National Farm Medicine Center , Marshfield Clinic Research Institute , Marshfield , WI , USA
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- a National Farm Medicine Center , Marshfield Clinic Research Institute , Marshfield , WI , USA
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Weichelt B, Yoder A, Bendixsen C, Pilz M, Minor G, Keifer M. Augmented Reality Farm MAPPER Development: Lessons Learned from an App Designed to Improve Rural Emergency Response. J Agromedicine 2018; 23:284-296. [PMID: 30047852 PMCID: PMC10783179 DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2018.1470051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Fire departments have right-of-entry to most commercial industrial sites and preemptively map them to identify the onsite resources and hazards they need to promptly and safely respond to an emergency event. This is not the case for private farms. Emergency responders are blind to resources and hazards prior to arrival and must spend critical minutes locating them during an emergency response at a farm location. The original 2013 Farm Mapping to Assist, Protect and Prepare Emergency Responders (Farm MAPPER) project was undertaken to develop a method to give emergency responders an up-to-date view of on-farm hazard information to safely and efficiently conduct emergency response activities on private agricultural operations. In 2017, an augmented reality version of Farm MAPPER was developed to combine the technological advantages of geographic information system-based data points with a heads-up display and graphical overlay of superimposed hazard imagery and informative icons. The development and testing of this iOS- and Android-ready prototype uncovered lessons learned applicable to other mobile-based apps targeting farmers, ranchers, and rural populations faced with limited or inconsistent mobile internet connectivity.
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- Bryan Weichelt
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- Pittsville Fire Department, Pittsville, Wisconsin, USA
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- Medicine and Public Health, University of Washington and Employee Occupational Health VA Puget Sound Health Care, Puget Sound Veterans Administration, Seattle, DC, USA
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Lee BC, Bendixsen C, Liebman AK, Gallagher SS. Using the socio-ecological model to frame agricultural safety and health interventions. J Agromedicine 2017; 22:298-303. [DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2017.1356780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Barbara C. Lee
- National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network, Salisbury, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Bendixsen C, Barnes K, Kieke B, Schenk D, Simich J, Keifer M. Sorting Through the Spheres of Influence: Using Modified Pile Sorting to Describe Who Influences Dairy Farmers' Decision-Making About Safety. J Agromedicine 2017; 22:316-327. [PMID: 28715252 PMCID: PMC10785080 DOI: 10.1080/1059924x.2017.1353938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The primary goal of this study was to describe the mutually perceived influence of bankers and insurers on their agricultural clients' decision-making regarding health and safety. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 dairy farmers, 11 agricultural bankers, and 10 agricultural insurers from central Wisconsin. Three of the interview questions involved pile sorting. Pile sorting included 5-point Likert-like scales to help participants sort through 32 index cards. Each card represented an individual or group that was thought to possibly affect farmers' decision-making, both generally and about health and safety. Results (photographs of piles of cards quantified into spread sheets, fieldnotes, and interview transcripts) were analyzed with SAS and NVivo. RESULTS All three groups expressed moderate-to-strong positive opinions about involving agricultural bankers (x2(2) = 2.8155, p = 0.2695), although bankers qualitatively expressed apprehension due to regulations on the industry. Insurance agents received more positive support, particularly from bankers but also from dairy farmers themselves, and expressed more confidence in being involved in designing and implementing a farm safety program. CONCLUSION Agricultural bankers and insurers can influence individual farmer's decision-making about health and safety. Both are believed to be good purveyors of safety programs and knowledge, especially when leveraging financial incentives. Insurance agents are thought to be more critical in the design of safety programs. Insurers and bankers being financially tied to safety programs may prove both positive and negative, as farmers may be skeptical about the intention of the incentives, making messaging critical.
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- Casper Bendixsen
- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Occupational and Public Health, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Lee BC, Salzwedel M, Weichelt B, Bendixsen C. 363 Using the socio-ecologic model as a guide for agricultural safety interventions. Inj Prev 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042156.363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Salzwedel M, Weichelt B, Bendixsen C, Lee BC. 653 Safety for youth involved in community based agriculture. Inj Prev 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042156.653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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