Grantee Research Project Results
2011 Progress Report: Community Stressors and Susceptibility to Air Pollution in Urban Asthma
EPA Grant Number: R834576Title: Community Stressors and Susceptibility to Air Pollution in Urban Asthma
Investigators: Clougherty, Jane E. , Spengler, John D. , Kubzansky, Laura D. , Carr Shmool, Jessie L , Fromewick, Jill , Abbatangelo-Gray, Jodie , Ito, Kazuhiko , Dotson-Newman, Ogonnaya , Shepard, Peggy
Current Investigators: Clougherty, Jane E. , Spengler, John D. , Kubzansky, Laura D. , Carr Shmool, Jessie L , Onokpise, Oghenekome U. , Ito, Kazuhiko , Shepard, Peggy
Institution: University of Pittsburgh , West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT for Environmental Justice) , Harvard University , New York University
Current Institution: University of Pittsburgh , Harvard University , New York University School of Medicine , West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT for Environmental Justice)
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: March 1, 2011 through February 28, 2015 (Extended to February 28, 2016)
Project Period Covered by this Report: March 1, 2011 through March 1,2012
Project Amount: $1,250,000
RFA: Understanding the Role of Nonchemical Stressors and Developing Analytic Methods for Cumulative Risk Assessments (2009) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Human Health
Objective:
This project aims to understand relative spatial distributions in key community-level psychosocial stressors and air pollution exposures across New York City, and to examine their separate and synergistic effects of childhood asthma exacerbation.
Progress Summary:
Future Activities:
In Year 2, we will facilitate 25 adult and teen focus groups, spatially distributed across all 5 NYC boroughs, to identify key stressors in diverse communities. Using insights from these focus groups, we will implement a systematic city-wide survey, to 1,000 adults across all NYC neighborhoods (in summer 2012 and winter, 2012-13), to capture individual-level perceived stress. We have added an online component that will enable residents to ‘draw’ their neighborhood outline in a GIS interface, to assess the spatial relevance of community-level indicators. Together, these data will enable us to systematically examine the association between community-level stressor indices (e.g., poverty or crime rates) and individual stress experience.
Journal Articles:
No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 53 publications for this projectSupplemental Keywords:
community stressors, psychosocial stress, synergistic effects, nonchemical stressors, traffic-related air pollution, childhood asthma exacerbation, differential susceptibility, spatial epidemiology, GIS;Relevant Websites:
http://www.pitt.edu/~jcloughe/Research.htm ExitProgress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.