Radon on the RADAR

雷达上的氡气

• 批准号: 10530635
• 负责人: Ellen J Hahn
• 金额: $ 52.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-20 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10530635
• 关键词: Address; Advocate; Atmosphere; Awareness; Back; Certification; Charcoal; Collaborations; Communities; County; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Detection; Diagnostic Reagent Kits; Disease; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; Equipment; Feedback; Gases; Geological Survey; Geology; Geoscience; Health; Home; Information Dissemination; Kentucky; Knowledge; Libraries; Low income; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Maps; Marketing; Measurement; Monitor; Outcome; Policy Maker; Precipitation; Procedures; Property; Provider; Radon; Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance; Reporting; Risk; Rural; Rural Community; Sampling; Seasons; Self Efficacy; Smoking; Soil; Technology; Temperature; Testing; Time; Tobacco smoke; Training; Translating; atmospheric conditions; cancer risk; citizen science; cost; design; detector; digital; environmental tobacco smoke exposure; health literacy; home test; improved; information seeking behavior; interest; knowledge integration; member; novel; programs; remediation; time use; usability; web site

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

抽象的 肯塔基州的高氡气潜力和高吸烟率创造了完美的风暴 肺癌病例比例过高。我们的跨学科、社区学术团队主导的项目， 雷达上的氡气（居民采取行动检测和减轻氡气）将解决社区关注的问题 通过识别增加氡气侵入的地质和大气条件来了解肺癌 家庭，将这些知识转化为更高的居民风险意识，从而实现家庭氡气测试 并报告，并越来越多地获得负担得起的、充分的氡气缓解措施。我们将组建地质学家团队 与公民科学家一起确定新的氡气检测技术（即 Airthings）与 传统的木炭套件和户外土壤氡气测量范围涵盖大气和地质范围 弥补我们对氡气风险理解中的关键知识差距的条件。该研究将建立 通过以下方式提高环境卫生能力：(a) 对公民进行严格的数据收集和解释方面的培训 发现; (b) 让这些公民科学家参与创建和促进图书馆借阅计划，以增加 氡气测试； (c) 制定可持续环境健康行动计划以减轻氡气暴露 在农村社区。我们的总体假设是，通过增加关于地质和 大气条件会影响氡气，与公民科学家合作使用新的氡气检测 技术并翻译数据，并通过增加低成本氡气减排的机会，我们将减少 氡风险。目标 1 将使用公民科学方法来识别和培训四个地区的 60 名社区居民 肯塔基州各县测试氡气并评估环境健康素养 (EHL) 和自我效能的变化。 目标 2 将比较室内家庭氡气值和土壤氡气值随时间的变化，控制大气 条件、季节性、地质、地形和家中吸烟。目标 3 将创建并评估 与四个县的 400 名房主合作开展氡气探测器图书馆借阅试点计划。目标 4 将推出 氡气探测器贷款计划并检查家庭测试和基于地质的访问的变化 氡势图。目标 5 将研究公民科学家领导的氡气联盟对影响范围的影响， 有效性、采用、实施、维护和环境健康素养。雷达 通过与以下机构合作，研究挑战并扩展了当前的环境健康科学范式 地质学家并整合他们的科学方法。我们将影响社区对高肺病的担忧 通过以下方式降低癌症发病率：1) 使用地球科学和新氡气改变氡气检测和报告 检测技术； 2) 开发图书馆借阅方法以增加氡气测试； 3）支持 通过创建和维持公民科学主导的氡气联盟来采取环境行动，这些联盟分享新的知识 知识并让健康倡导者、氡气缓解专业人员、政策制定者、建设者和 开发商促进肯塔基州农村地区氡气管理的改善。