Assessment of exposure to air pollution in children: Determining whether wearing a personal monitor affects physical activity.

Assessment of exposure to air pollution in children: Determining whether wearing a personal monitor affects physical activity. Environ Res. 2018 Jun 15;166:340-343 Authors: Lovinsky-Desir S, Lawrence J, Jung KH, Rundle AG, Hoepner LA, Yan B, Perera F, Perzanowski MS, Miller RL, Chillrud SN Abstract Personal air pollution monitoring in research studies should not interfere with usual patterns of behavior and bias results. In an urban pediatric cohort study we tested whether wearing an air monitor impacted activity time based on continuous watch-based accelerometry. The majority (71%) reported that activity while wearing the monitor mimicked normal activity. Correspondingly, variation in activity while wearing versus not wearing the monitor did not differ greatly from baseline variation in activity (P = 0.84). PMID: 29913435 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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