A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Refined Methods to Mitigate Indoor Allergens in North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts Homes

Completed

Conditions studied: Hypersensitivity

In brief

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00344344
Run by: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
People needed: 88
Starts: 2000-10-19
Expected to finish: 2006-09-11
Last updated by the study team: 2017-07-02

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

Homes will be excluded from this study if any of the inclusion criteria are not met.
Indoor Dust Mite Allergen:
Must have a home occupant who intends to live at the same address for at least 6 months; live at the house full time; be at least 21 years of age; have at least one bedroom with wall to wall carpeting; yield dust collected during the screening visit that contains combined Def fl plus Der pl allergen levels of greater than or equal to 10 ug/gram dust.
For Intervention arm only - home occupant must have an adult at home during the study visits on weekdays over the six month period that the study is ongoing.
Indoor Cockroach Allergen:
Must have a home occupant that intends to live at the same address for at least 6 months; live in the house full time; be at least 21 years of age; have moderate to severe cockroach infestation as evidenced by occupant self-reports of cockroach sightings and by sticky trap assessment that yield a combined total sticky trap count of 50-250 cockroaches.
For intervention arm only - home occupant must have an adult at home during most of the weekdays over the six month period that the study is ongoing.

Where it is running

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) — Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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