1. Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevention Barriers Related to Childhood Lead Poisoning Among Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Parents in Northeast Ohio, United States.
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Shakya, Sunita, Stedman-Smith, Maggie, White, P. Cooper, and Bhatta, Madhav P.
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LEAD poisoning prevention , *HEALTH services accessibility , *HEALTH attitudes , *PSYCHOLOGY of refugees , *STATISTICAL sampling , *NEPALI people , *COMMUNITIES , *PARENT attitudes , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *JUDGMENT sampling , *SURVEYS , *ODDS ratio , *TEST validity , *PSYCHOLOGY of parents , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors , *DATA analysis software , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *INTER-observer reliability , *CHILDREN - Abstract
The study objectives were: (i) to develop and administer a survey to assess childhood lead poisoning (CLP) knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevention barriers (KAP-B) among the Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese (NSB) community in Northeast Ohio; and (ii) to examine the association between socio-demographic characteristics of NSB parents and their understanding of CLP as measured by the constructs of knowledge and attitudes. A Nepali language KAP-B questionnaire was developed and 200 NSB parents with at least one child ≤ 7 years of age from the Akron Metropolitan Area, Ohio were interviewed. NSB parents demonstrated a low level of knowledge about CLP prevention measures. While 82% lived in pre-1978 houses, only 27.5% perceived their house/neighborhood to be potentially lead contaminated. Only 33% of the parents reported understanding lead-related information provided by their child's healthcare provider. Low-level CLP awareness among NSB community emphasizes a need for culturally tailored and linguistically appropriate community-level CLP educational intervention programs in this vulnerable community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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