Respiratory Health Study of Children in Kiryat Tivon

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Kiryat Tivon is located close to a major industrial zone. The aim of the study is to evaluate the health status of children living in K. Tivon. The health status will be evaluated using health questionnaires and spirometry.

Detailed Description
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Kiryat Tivon is located close to a major industrial zone. The aim of the study is to evaluate the health status of children living in K. Tivon. The health status will be evaluated while using health questionnaires and spirometry. Objective: To evaluate the respiratory health of K. Tivon children with comparatives, with respect to local air pollution levels. Material and Methods: All the school children from K. Tivon (1800 children) will be included in the study, after both parents and the children (above 12 years of age) will sign an informed consent form. First step: A health questionnaire (based on Hebrew version of ISAAC questionnaire) will be filled in by the parents. Second step: Spirometry checking of the children. In parallel, air pollution levels will be measured and provided by a network of ground monitoring stations maintained by the Haifa District Municipality Association for the Environment (HDMAE). The station provides half-hourly measurement of mean concentrations of gaseous (NOX, SO2, O3) and particular (PM 10) pollutants over the entire investigation window. Additional meteorological data are also collected. Risk maps: Using a GIS platform, we are developing a multi-layer risk mapping procedure which accounts for ambient concentrations of selected pollutants and the heterogenic spatial distribution of several demographic and socio-economic indexes in the region. The prevalence of pulmonary disease will be evaluated according to the risk maps.

Official Title
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Respiratory Health Study of Children in Kiryat Tivon

Conditions
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Bronchial Asthma, Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory, Allergy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: Minato A 500 AS spirometer


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: All school children Exclusion Criteria: Children that their parents did not signed the informed consent

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 6 Years
Maximum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: A<br>Cohort of school children that evaluated with questionnaire and spirometry with MINATO 500 JAPAN spirometer | Device: Minato A 500 AS spirometer<br>* Spirometry at rest<br>* Other names: Spirometer MINATOm AS 500 JAPAn;|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The prevalence of respiratory symptoms in respect to air pollution |  | 1.5 years | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Asthma, Allergy, Respiratory, Pollution, Children, Air pollution