@article{ref1,
title="Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and prevention barriers related to childhood lead poisoning among Nepali-speaking Bhutanese parents in Northeast Ohio, United States",
journal="Journal of immigrant and minority health",
year="2023",
author="Shakya, Sunita and Stedman-Smith, Maggie and White, P. Cooper and Bhatta, Madhav P.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The study objectives were: (i) to develop and administer a survey to assess childhood lead poisoning (CLP) knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevention barriers (KAP-B) among the Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese (NSB) community in Northeast Ohio; and (ii) to examine the association between socio-demographic characteristics of NSB parents and their understanding of CLP as measured by the constructs of knowledge and attitudes. A Nepali language KAP-B questionnaire was developed and 200 NSB parents with at least one child ≤ 7 years of age from the Akron Metropolitan Area, Ohio were interviewed. NSB parents demonstrated a low level of knowledge about CLP prevention measures. While 82% lived in pre-1978 houses, only 27.5% perceived their house/neighborhood to be potentially lead contaminated. Only 33% of the parents reported understanding lead-related information provided by their child's healthcare provider. Low-level CLP awareness among NSB community emphasizes a need for culturally tailored and linguistically appropriate community-level CLP educational intervention programs in this vulnerable community.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1557-1912",
doi="10.1007/s10903-023-01543-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-023-01543-9"
}