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Testing of a novel questionnaire of Household Exposure to Wood Smoke

Household air pollution from wood smoke (WS), contributes to adverse health effects in both low- and high-income countries. However, measurement of WS exposure has been limited to expensive in-home monitoring and lengthy face-to-face interviews. This paper reports on the development and testing of a...

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Autores principales: Meek, Paula M., Schmiege, Sarah J., Sood, Akshay, Petersen, Hans, Vazquez-Guillamet, Rodrigo, Irshad, Hammad, McDonald, Jacob, Tesfaigzi, Yohannes
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36963064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001500
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author Meek, Paula M.
Schmiege, Sarah J.
Sood, Akshay
Petersen, Hans
Vazquez-Guillamet, Rodrigo
Irshad, Hammad
McDonald, Jacob
Tesfaigzi, Yohannes
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Schmiege, Sarah J.
Sood, Akshay
Petersen, Hans
Vazquez-Guillamet, Rodrigo
Irshad, Hammad
McDonald, Jacob
Tesfaigzi, Yohannes
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description Household air pollution from wood smoke (WS), contributes to adverse health effects in both low- and high-income countries. However, measurement of WS exposure has been limited to expensive in-home monitoring and lengthy face-to-face interviews. This paper reports on the development and testing of a novel, self-report nine-item measure of WS exposure, called the Household Exposure to Wood Smoke (HEWS). A sample of 149 individuals using household wood stoves for heating from western states in the U.S., completed the HEWS during the winter months (November to March) of 2013 through 2016 with 30 subjects having in-home particle monitoring. Hard copy or online surveys were completed. Cronbach’s alpha (α), intraclass correlations (ICC), exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and tests of associations were done to evaluate reliability and validity of the HEWS. Based on initial analysis, only 9 of the 12 items were retained and entered in the EFA. The EFA did not support a unitary scale as the 9 items demonstrated a 3-factor solution (WS exposure duration, proximity, and intensity) with Cronbach’s α of 0.79, 0.91, and 0.62, respectively. ICC was 0.86 of the combined items with single items ranging from 0.46 to 0.95. WS intensity was associated with symptoms and levoglucosan levels, while WS duration was associated with stove and flume maintenance. The three-dimensional HEWS demonstrated internal consistency and test-retest reliability, structural validity, and initial criterion and construct validity.
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spelling pubmed-100221892023-03-17 Testing of a novel questionnaire of Household Exposure to Wood Smoke Meek, Paula M. Schmiege, Sarah J. Sood, Akshay Petersen, Hans Vazquez-Guillamet, Rodrigo Irshad, Hammad McDonald, Jacob Tesfaigzi, Yohannes PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article Household air pollution from wood smoke (WS), contributes to adverse health effects in both low- and high-income countries. However, measurement of WS exposure has been limited to expensive in-home monitoring and lengthy face-to-face interviews. This paper reports on the development and testing of a novel, self-report nine-item measure of WS exposure, called the Household Exposure to Wood Smoke (HEWS). A sample of 149 individuals using household wood stoves for heating from western states in the U.S., completed the HEWS during the winter months (November to March) of 2013 through 2016 with 30 subjects having in-home particle monitoring. Hard copy or online surveys were completed. Cronbach’s alpha (α), intraclass correlations (ICC), exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and tests of associations were done to evaluate reliability and validity of the HEWS. Based on initial analysis, only 9 of the 12 items were retained and entered in the EFA. The EFA did not support a unitary scale as the 9 items demonstrated a 3-factor solution (WS exposure duration, proximity, and intensity) with Cronbach’s α of 0.79, 0.91, and 0.62, respectively. ICC was 0.86 of the combined items with single items ranging from 0.46 to 0.95. WS intensity was associated with symptoms and levoglucosan levels, while WS duration was associated with stove and flume maintenance. The three-dimensional HEWS demonstrated internal consistency and test-retest reliability, structural validity, and initial criterion and construct validity. Public Library of Science 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10022189/ /pubmed/36963064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001500 Text en © 2023 Meek et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Tesfaigzi, Yohannes
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