RECLEAN Pilot Study

RECLEAN Pilot Study: Reducing Lead in the Homes of Construction Workers

This is an exposure assessment pilot study tailored for families of construction workers living with a child. The investigators will compare home dust metal levels and resident's blood metal levels before and after an educational and environmental intervention. A baseline and a post intervention period assessment will be conducted with home and car lead inspections and risk assessments with collection of dust, urine, blood and toenail samples and a survey.

Objectives of this research are to:

1. To characterize pre-intervention home exposures to lead and other metals in households with one construction worker inhabitant living with a child, by assessing household members' biospecimens and home dust metal levels.
2. To develop and evaluate customized home interventions (including environmental and educational approaches) to reduce metals exposure in three tiers of intervention.
3. To characterize home exposures to lead and other metals post intervention and determine adapted behaviors and whether the degree of metals exposure reduction (including take home exposures) in the households depends on the level of intervention.

First, construction workers will be recruited. Second, household members of the construction worker will be recruited.

Inclusion Criteria:

Construction workers must meet all of the following inclusion criteria:

1. 18 years of age or older
2. works full time in construction with high risk for metal exposures
3. lives in the Greater Boston area
4. lives with at least 1 child household member 1 year of age or older (does not have to be a child of the worker but interested in participating in the study)
5. speaks English or Spanish.

Household resident participants must meet all of the following inclusion criteria:

1. child (1 - 17 years of age) or adult (18 years of age or older)
2. lives in the Greater Boston area with the worker participating in this study
3. speaks English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria: None