Radon on the RADAR

雷达上的氡气

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

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

摘要 肯塔基州的高氡潜势和高吸烟率为 肺癌的发病率过高。我们的跨学科，社区学术团队领导的项目， Radon on on the RADAR（居民采取行动探测和缓解氡）将解决社区关注的问题 通过确定增加氡侵入的地质和大气条件， 家庭，将这些知识转化为更高的居民风险意识，使家庭氡测试 并报告，以及越来越多的人获得负担得起的和适当的氡缓解措施。我们将地质学家 与公民科学家一起确定新的氡检测技术（即，Airthings）比较 传统的木炭工具包和户外土壤氡测量在大气和地质范围内 这是我们在了解氡风险方面的一个关键知识缺口。该研究将建立 （a）培训公民严格收集数据和解释 调查结果;（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 （c）制订可持续的环境卫生行动计划，以减少氡的照射 在农村社区。我们的总体假设是，通过增加对地质和 大气条件可以影响氡，与公民科学家合作使用新的氡检测 技术和转化数据，并通过增加低成本氡减排的机会，我们将减少 氡风险。目标1将采用公民科学方法，在四个社区确定和培训60名社区居民， KY县进行氡测试，并评估环境健康素养（EHL）和自我效能的变化。 目标2将比较室内家庭氡值和土壤氡值随时间的变化， 条件、季节性、地质、地形和家中吸烟。目标3将创建和评估一个 在四个县的400名房主中试行氡探测器图书馆贷款方案。Aim 4将发射 氡探测器贷款计划，并检查家庭测试和访问地质基础的变化 氡潜势图目标5将审查公民科学家领导的氡联盟对范围的影响， 有效性、采用、实施、维护和环境卫生知识。雷达 研究挑战和扩展当前的环境健康科学范式，通过与 地质学家和整合他们的科学方法。我们将影响社区对高肺 癌症发病率：1）利用地球科学和新的氡气改变氡检测和报告 2）开发图书馆借阅方法，以增加氡检测;以及3）支持 通过创建和维持以公民科学为主导的氡联盟， 了解并吸引健康倡导者、氡减排专业人员、政策制定者、建筑商和 开发商促进改善肯塔基州农村地区的氡管理。