Childrens flame retardant exposures measured by passive wristbands: Sex specific associations, social adversity, and socio-cognitive development

Oregon State University, Corvallis OR

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Project Summary/Abstract This project addresses both bioethics research and capacity building in bioethics. Providing participants in scientific studies with personalized reports based on data is a bioethical issue and an inexpensive strategy to increase health literacy, engagement, and trust in research, improve access to scientific information especially within marginalized communities, and motivate health behavior change. While report back strategies have been used in health studies, there is a need to assess participant preferences and for report back strategies that address a child’s exposome (e.g., chemical and social environments) and developmental progress more holistically. Moreover, an exposome-based strategy must be trauma-informed to appropriately engage parents of young children who experience adversity. This administrative supplement will support the development of trauma-informed health messaging and report back strategies by engaging with the existing cohort of parent- child-teacher triads that have been recruited in “Children’s flame retardant exposures measured by passive wristbands: sex specific associations, social adversity, and socio-cognitive development” (R01 ES029497). Our rationale for this additional research is assess parent preferences to thoughtfully inform development of health messaging and report design that includes trauma-informed approaches (e.g., coupling stressors with protective influences; inclusive language; multiple ways to engage) combined with personalized reports will: i) make information more accessible to all families, especially to those facing adversity, ii) increase engagement with scientific information through the inclusion of their own child’s data and progress, and iii) empower individuals to make behavioral changes that promote healthy child development. This research will focus on developing and improving messaging that could be utilized in a future behavioral intervention that would accelerate research translation for children’s environmental health.