Ghana randomized air pollution and health study (GRAPHS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Household air pollution exposure is a major health risk, but validated interventions remain elusive.

Methods/design

The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) is a cluster-randomized trial that evaluates the efficacy of clean fuels (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG) and efficient biomass cookstoves in the Brong-Ahafo region of central Ghana. We recruit pregnant women into LPG, efficient cookstove, and control arms and track birth weight and physician-assessed severe pneumonia incidence in the first year of life. A woman is eligible to participate if she is in the first or second trimester of pregnancy and carrying a live singleton fetus, if she is the primary cook, and if she does not smoke. We hypothesize that babies born to intervention mothers

SUBMITTER: Jack DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579662 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature