The Eastern Townships (ETR) is a region in Qu  bec (Canada) where the soil is naturally rich in @entity3494 (As). About a third of the @entity1 in the ETR obtain their water from a private well. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare two campaigns designed to promote As screening in well water: a mass-media campaign ( @entity1139 ) followed or not by a community-based intervention (CBI). The @entity1139 is based on a press release issued for the ETR, along with a leaflet on As made available on the Internet, and in strategic places. The CBI, formulated according to the factors of the Precede-Proceed model, was aimed at mobilizing local authorities and small media. It targets only one municipality; the @entity497 ( @entity497 ). Using a separate pre-post samples design, two population-based cross-sectional (pre-CBI and post-CBI) surveys were conducted by phone at 6-month intervals, by means of random samples. The samples counted, for the @entity497 and the ETR, respectively, 87 and 156 well owners in pre-CBI, and 106 and 190 in post-CBI. The results in post-CBI showed that the proportion of well owners who had their water test increased by four times in the @entity497 after (16% p = 0.004). When adjusting for age and gender among all the post-CBI respondents, As screening is related with intervention status (exposed to @entity1139 and CBI; p  <= 0.001) and on previous microbiological water analysis behavior (p  <= 0.05), but is not related to knowledge. This study demonstrates the superiority of a community-based campaign over a @entity1139 when environmental health is concerned.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of XXXX screening promotion in private wells: a quasi-experimental study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['people'] @entity3494 :: ('MESH:D001151', 'Chemical') :: ['arsenic'] @entity497 :: ('MESH:D003147', 'Disease') :: ['intervention community', 'IC'] @entity1139 :: ('CHEBI:27504', 'Chemical') :: ['MMC']
@entity3494 :: (MESH:D001151,Chemical) :: ['arsenic']
