Journal
TRIALS
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-0930-8
Keywords
Household air pollution; LPG; Cookstove; Ghana; Pneumonia; Birth weight
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [R01 ES019547, P30 ES009089, K23 ES021471, T32 ES023770, 1R01ES019547, ES009089] Funding Source: Medline
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Background: Household air pollution exposure is a major health risk, but validated interventions remain elusive. Methods/Design: The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) is a cluster-randomized trial that evaluates the efficacy of clean fuels (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG) and efficient biomass cookstoves in the Brong-Ahafo region of central Ghana. We recruit pregnant women into LPG, efficient cookstove, and control arms and track birth weight and physician-assessed severe pneumonia incidence in the first year of life. A woman is eligible to participate if she is in the first or second trimester of pregnancy and carrying a live singleton fetus, if she is the primary cook, and if she does not smoke. We hypothesize that babies born to intervention mothers will weigh more and will have fewer cases of physician-assessed severe pneumonia in the first year of life. Additionally, an extensive personal air pollution exposure monitoring effort opens the way for exposure-response analyses, which we will present alongside intention-to-treat analyses. Major funding was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, The Thrasher Research Fund, and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Discussion: Household air pollution exposure is a major health risk that requires well-tested interventions. GRAPHS will provide important new evidence on the efficacy of both efficient biomass cookstoves and LPG, and will thus help inform health and energy policies in developing countries.
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