Community health worker intervention to reduce worker exposure to volatile organic compounds in small business auto and beauty shops in a marginalized community: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Shannon L Gutenkunst e outros, 2026 · PLOS One
A community health worker-led occupational hygiene intervention offering customized control guidance and a $300 subsidy reduced TVOC levels in beauty shops by an estimated 27% (ratio 0.73), not statistically significant.
Estimativa · Workshift time-weighted average TVOC concentration ratio
0,730 [0,450; 1,19]
ratio of post- to pre-intervention geometric mean TVOC concentration
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster randomized controlled trial with linear mixed-effects models
- População
- Small beauty shops and predominantly Latino workers in Tucson, Arizona, 2022–2024
- Amostra
- 46 · beauty shops (470 workshift measurements across 130 shop assessments)
Onde está o número
Table 3, row 'Beauty Adjusted'
Beauty Adjusted | 0.73 (0.45, 1.19)
Contexto
What changed: Community health workers assessed shops, advised on controls, and provided $300 to purchase equipment such as air purifiers. Comparison: Delayed-intervention control beauty shops. Limits: Wide confidence intervals reflecting substantial day-to-day exposure variability and an underpowered sample.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoSubsídios
- ResultadoPoluição atmosférica local
- EixoPoluição do ar
MAGI só cita evidência deste instrumento
Lugares do estudo
- Tucson · Município · US
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23