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The Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) study: methods and design of a prospective cohort study in Louisiana to examine the health effects from the BP oil spill.
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- The role of epigenetic age acceleration and social disadvantage in cardiometabolic health in southeast Louisiana women.Clinical epigenetics · 2026Article
- Maternal exposure to oil spill and children's mental health: The mediating role of resource loss.PloS one · 2026Article
- Neighborhood disorder and ovarian cancer survival in Black women.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Disparities in Posttraumatic Stress in Women in Southeast Louisiana: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health.Population and environment · 2023Article
- Work-family spillover and depression: Are there racial differences among employed women?SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Estimating Health Risks to Children Associated with Recreational Play on Oil Spill-Contaminated Beaches.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Among Women: Intervention Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- PTSD symptom profiles among Louisiana women affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A latent profile analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Article
- The Long-Term Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Women's Depression and Mental Distress.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2019Article
- Neighborhood Environment Measurements and Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity: Results from the Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) Study.Environment and behavior · 2018Article
- The Development of Long-Term Adverse Health Effects in Oil Spill Cleanup Workers of the Deepwater Horizon Offshore Drilling Rig Disaster.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeThe Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is the largest marine oil spill in US history. Few studies have evaluated the potential health effects of this spill on the Gulf Coast community. The Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) study is a prospective cohort designed to investigate the midterm to long-term physical, mental and behavioural health effects of exposure to the oil spill.
participantsWomen were recruited by telephone from pre-existing lists of individuals and households using an address-based sampling frame between 2012 and 2014. Baseline interviews obtained information on oil spill exposure, demographics, physical and mental health, and health behaviours. Women were also asked to provide a household roster, from which a child between 10 and 17 years was randomly selected and recruited into a child substudy. Telephone respondents were invited to participate in a home visit in which blood samples, anthropometrics and neighbourhood characteristics were measured. A follow-up interview was completed between 2014 and 2016. FINDINGS TO DATE: 2852 women completed the baseline interview, 1231 of whom participated in the home visit, and 628 children participated in the child's health substudy. The follow-up interview successfully reinterviewed 2030 women and 454 children. FUTURE PLANS: WaTCH continues to conduct follow-up surveys, with a third wave of interviews planned in 2017. Also, we are looking to enhance the collection of spatially related environmental data to facilitate assessment of health risks in the study population. In addition, opportunities to participate in behavioural interventions for subsets of the cohort have been initiated. There are ongoing studies that examine the relationship between genetic and immunological markers with mental health.
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