ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2021
Outdoor Air Quality Awareness, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among U.S. Children Aged 12-17 Years, 2015-2018.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Gaps Between Use of Air Quality Information and Healthcare Provider Discussion in U.S. Children With Asthma and Their Caregivers.AJPM focus · 2026Article
- The impact of short-term exposure to black carbon air pollution on asthma exacerbations in Thai children: a time-stratified case-crossover nationwide study from 2015 to 2022.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Awareness of wildfire smoke among U.S. adults with and without asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2025Article
- Article
- Air pollution exposure, respiratory consequences, and perceptions among urban African children living in poor conditions - A case study in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The perception of air pollution and its health risk: a scoping review of measures and methods.Global health action · 2024Article
- Examining Relationships between Perceptions of Air Quality-Objectively Assessed Particulate Matter-And Health-Related Attributions among Midlife and Older Adults from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Determinants of Knowledge, Attitudes, Perceptions and Behaviors Regarding Air Pollution in Schoolchildren in Pristina, Kosovo.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices about air pollution and its health effects in 6th to 11th-grade students in Colombia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Wearing masks as a protective measure for children against traffic-related air pollution: A comparison of perceptions between school children and their caregivers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2023Article
- Ozone and childhood respiratory health: A primer for US pediatric providers and a call for a more protective standard.Pediatric pulmonology · 2023Review
- Environmental Health Knowledge Does Not Necessarily Translate to Action in Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Parental knowledge and usage of air quality in childhood asthma management.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Air Quality Awareness and Behaviors of U.S. Adolescents With and Without Asthma.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to assess U.S. adolescents' perceptions and knowledge about air quality and their behaviors aimed to reduce air pollution exposure and whether they vary by demographic characteristics.
methodsWe analyzed data from the Porter Novelli Public Services YouthStyles survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S. adolescents aged 12-17 years. In survey years 2015-2018, a total of 3,547 adolescents self-reported awareness, perceptions, and behaviors related to air pollution. We calculated weighted percentages of respondents reporting each aspect of air quality awareness, perception, and behaviors overall and by categories of age, gender, parental education, metropolitan status, region, and survey year.
resultsOverall, an estimated 81% of U.S. adolescents thought outdoor air pollution could impact health, 52% thought there were things they could do to limit their or their family's exposure, 19% were aware of air quality alerts, 46% of those who thought or were informed air quality was bad did something differently, and 19% always or usually avoided busy roads to reduce air pollution exposure; differences were reported by some demographic variables.
conclusionsAmong U.S. adolescents, awareness that air pollution could impact health was relatively high. However, gaps were found in the awareness of the potential impacts and other aspects of awareness and perceptions related to air pollution and the engagement in behaviors to reduce exposure, some of which varied by demographic characteristics. These results can be used to inform interventions that increase awareness and behaviors to reduce air pollution exposures among U.S. adolescents.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.