Perspectives of peripartum people on opportunities for personal and collective action to reduce exposure to everyday chemicals: Focus groups to inform exposure report-back.

Autor: Oksas C; University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: catherine.oksas@ucsf.edu., Brody JG; Silent Spring Institute, Newton, MA, USA., Brown P; Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: p.brown@northeastern.edu., Boronow KE; Silent Spring Institute, Newton, MA, USA. Electronic address: boronow@silentspring.org., DeMicco E; Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: Erin.DeMicco@ucsf.edu., Charlesworth A; Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: annemarie.charlesworth@ucsf.edu., Juarez M; Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: Maribel.Juarez2@ucsf.edu., Geiger S; Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. Electronic address: smurphy7@illinois.edu., Schantz SL; Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. Electronic address: schantz@illinois.edu., Woodruff TJ; Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: Woodruff@ucsf.edu., Morello-Frosch R; School of Public Health and Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Electronic address: rmf@berkeley.edu., Padula AM; Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: amy.padula@ucsf.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental research [Environ Res] 2022 Sep; Vol. 212 (Pt A), pp. 113173. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113173
Abstrakt: Participants in biomonitoring studies who receive personal exposure reports seek information to reduce exposures. Many chemical exposures are driven by systems-level policies rather than individual actions; therefore, change requires engagement in collective action. Participants' perceptions of collective action and use of report-back to support engagement remain unclear. We conducted virtual focus groups during summer 2020 in a diverse group of peripartum people from cohorts in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program (N = 18). We assessed baseline exposure and collective action experience, and report-back preferences. Participants were motivated to protect the health of their families and communities despite significant time and cognitive burdens. They requested time-conscious tactics and accessible information to enable action to reduce individual and collective exposures. Participant input informed the design of digital report-back in the cohorts. This study highlights opportunities to shift responsibility from individuals to policymakers to reduce chemical exposures at the systems level.
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