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An educational intervention on the risk perception of pesticides exposure and organophosphate metabolites urinary concentrations in rural school children in Maule Region, Chile

dc.contributor.authorMuñoz-Quezada, María Teresa
dc.contributor.authorLucero-Mondaca, Boris
dc.contributor.authorBradman, Asa
dc.contributor.authorSteenland, Kyle
dc.contributor.authorZúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.
dc.contributor.authorCalafat, Antonia M.
dc.contributor.authorOspina, Maria
dc.contributor.authorIglesias, Verónica
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz, María Pía
dc.contributor.authorBuralli, Rafael J.
dc.contributor.authorFredes-Monsalve, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorGutiérrez-Jara, Juan P.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-17T12:34:38Z
dc.date.available2019-12-17T12:34:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorio.ucm.cl/handle/ucm/2556
dc.description.abstractBackground: Organophosphate (OP) pesticides can be hazardous to human health if not applied with appropriate precautions. There is evidence in the Maule region of Chile that rural schoolchildren are exposed to OP pesticides. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on OP exposure and understanding of pesticides and their hazards (risk perception) in two school communities in the Maule Region of Chile during 2016. Method: We conducted a quasi-experimental study about the effects on OP pesticide exposure of a community outreach and education program (COEP) administered in four 2-h sessions that's included hands-on activities among 48 schoolchildren from two rural schools. The intervention was directed to groups of parents and school-children separately, and aimed to educate them about the risks of exposure to pesticides and their effects on health. We measured 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPy), 2-isopropyl-4-methyl-6-hydroxypyrimidine (IMPY), malathion dicarboxylic acid (MDA), p-nitrophenol (PNP), specific urinary metabolites of the OP pesticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion and parathion, respectively, as well as the non-specific diethylakylphosphates (DEAPs) and dimethylalkylphosphates (DMAPs) in 192 urine samples of schoolchildren collected before and after the intervention. The risk perception of school children and their parents was also assessed through a questionnaire before and after the intervention. Generalized Estimated Equations were used to account for each child’s repeated measures during four sessions, two in September 2016 (pre-intervention) and two in November 2016 (post-intervention). Results: The intervention level had significant effect on the risk perception of adults and children, which increased after the intervention. However, the intervention was not associated with reduced of urinary metabolites levels, with no significant differences between the pre and post measures. The detection frequencies were 1.1% (MDA), 71.4% (TCPy), 43.3% (IMPY), 98.96% (PNP), and 100% (DEAPs and DMAPs). Higher DEAPs urine concentrations were associated with eating more fruit at school (p = 0.03), a younger age (p = 0.03), and being male (p = 0.01). DMAPs showed no associations with potential predictor variables (e.g. OPs applied at home, fruit consumption at school, among others). Higher TCPy was associated with attending a school closer to farms (p = 0.04) and living in a home closer to farm fields (p = 0.01); higher PNP was marginally associated with children younger age (p = 0.035). Conclusion: Environmental exposure to OP pesticides was unchanged even after behavior changes. It is possible that a longer time period is needed to observe changes in both behavior and urinary metabolites. The levels of DEP and DMP metabolites found here are above the reference population of the US, and our findings indicate exposure to a wide variety of OP pesticides. Given that individual-level interventions were not associated with lower exposures, efforts to reduce exposure must occur upstream and require stricter regulation and control of pesticide use by government agencies.es_CL
dc.language.isoenes_CL
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/*
dc.sourceEnvironmental Research, 176, 108554es_CL
dc.subjectPesticides exposurees_CL
dc.subjectChildrenes_CL
dc.subjectRisk assessmentes_CL
dc.subjectAgriculturees_CL
dc.titleAn educational intervention on the risk perception of pesticides exposure and organophosphate metabolites urinary concentrations in rural school children in Maule Region, Chilees_CL
dc.typeArticlees_CL
dc.ucm.facultadFacultad de Ciencias de la Saludes_CL
dc.ucm.indexacionScopuses_CL
dc.ucm.indexacionIsies_CL
dc.ucm.urisibib2.ucm.cl:2048/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119303512es_CL
dc.ucm.doidoi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108554es_CL


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