An overview of the Be Well Home Health Navigator Program to reduce contaminants in well water: Design and methods.

Background: The Be Well Home Health Navigator Program is a prospective, randomized controlled trial (RCT) implemented to compare a community health navigator program to usual care program to reduce contaminants in drinking water.

Design And Setting: This 4-year two-armed RCT will involve well owners in Oregon that have private drinking water wells that contain arsenic, nitrate, or lead above maximum contaminant levels.

Intervention: The intervention leverages the trusted relationship between Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Community Educators and rural well owners to educate, assist and motivate to make decisions and set actionable steps to mitigate water contamination.

Association between objective measures and parent-reported measures of child tobacco smoke exposure: A secondary data analysis of four trials.

Introduction: Tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) harms children and adults. Studies of childhood TSE exposure often relies on parental reports, but may benefit from objective measures. The objective of our study was to study the relationship between reported and objective measures of TSE.

Real-time feedback of air quality in children's bedrooms reduces exposure to secondhand smoke.

Introduction: Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure creates health risks for non-smokers and is especially detrimental to children. This study evaluated whether immediate feedback in response to poor indoor air quality in children's bedrooms can reduce the potential for SHS exposure, as measured by adherence to a World Health Organization (WHO) indoor air standard.

Methods: Homes that contained children and an adult who regularly smoked inside (n=298) had an air particle monitor installed in the child's bedroom.

Barriers and Motivators for Smoking Cessation Among Caregivers of Inpatient Pediatric Patients.

Objective: To examine perceived barriers and motivators for smoking cessation among caregivers of inpatient pediatric patients.

Methods: From December 2014 to June 2018, trained tobacco counselors conducted motivational interviews (MI) with caregivers of inpatient pediatric patients ages 0 to 17, who participated in the intervention arm of a smoking cessation randomized controlled trial. By using NVivo 12 software, the first MI session with each caregiver was evaluated by 3 individuals to identify and categorize motivators and barriers; agreement among reviewers was reached.