Reporting Back Pesticide Results to Family Child Care Home Directors

April 28, 2026 updated by: University of California, San Francisco

IPM Intervention for Family Child Care Home Directors

Child Care Health Consultants will provide an integrated pest management (IPM) intervention for ~30 family child care home directors. The intervention will include an educational component, collecting carpet dust samples, reporting back the pesticides identified in the carpet, and 7-monthly consultations to identify ways to reduce their exposure to pesticides and lower their long term health risks.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The 12-month IPM intervention study conducted in family child care homes will include baseline and post-intervention interviews with the family child care home director, surveys, environmental assessments, and carpet dust samples. The intervention will include an IPM educational meeting where the director will receive an IPM Toolkit and toolbox, learn about the health risks related to repeated pesticide use. Six monthly consultations will be provided to focus on the goals set by the director to increase their IPM practices, reduce their use of pesticides, and lower the health risks for the children in their care, themselves and their staff. Three months after baseline, study staff will share the results of the pesticides detected in the dust samples to individual family child care home directors using Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI). Interviews throughout the study period will be conducted with the family child care home directors to explore their reactions to and understanding of results, health effects, decisions made, intention to change pest management strategies, and/or share the results with families and their community.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

30

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
        • UCSF School of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria: Director of a family child care home with 5 or more children in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, or Fresno County in California. Plan to stay open for at least 12 months.

Exclusion Criteria: Does not read or speak English or Spanish.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Integrated Pest Management and Report Pesticide Exposure
Provide integrated pest management (IPM) toolkit and results of dust sample identifying pesticide exposure.
Behavioral: Integrated pest management (IPM) practices
Provide IPM resources to family child care home directors along with information about their exposure to pesticides and use of pesticides to lower their health risks.
Other Names:
  • Reduce use of pesticides to lower health risks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
IPM practices
Time Frame: one year
Increased IPM practices as identified on the standardized, observational IPM Checklist post-intervention.
one year
Decrease Pesticide Use and Exposure in Family Child Care Home
Time Frame: one year
Observational checklists will be used to identify the number of pesticide sprays in the family child care home. Carpet dust analyses conducted by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will identify the detection and concentration of pesticides in the carpet dust.
one year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Increased understanding of health risks associated with pesticide use
Time Frame: one year
Qualitative analyses will be conducted on the director interviews to identify themes and knowledge of the health risks associated with pesticide use, alternative treatments, IPM approach to pest management comparing pre- versus post-intervention responses.
one year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborators

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Abbey Alkon, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 1, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

April 30, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

April 30, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 13, 2025

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 2, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

April 4, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 30, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 28, 2026

Last Verified

April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 4000 317300 144257A 01
  • R01ES036261-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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