ArticleAir quality, atmosphere, & health2021
Protective equipment and health education program could benefit students from dust pollution.
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- Effectiveness of a Knowledge-Oriented Educational Intervention on Air Pollution Health Protection Among Primary School Students: A Pilot Pre-Post Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
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Abstract
In recent years, children living in the downstream of the Choshui River in Taiwan have been exposed to violent dust episodes. For the sake of the health of these children, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of protective equipment (sand-proof plastic cover and air purifier) installed outside/inside the classrooms on students' pulmonary function and evaluate the health education program for preventing the adverse consequences of exposure to river-dust episodes. Public elementary school students in Yunlin County, which was severely affected by river-dust, were selected as the participants. Study 1 consisted of three-wave follow-up data (801 person-times) in high-/low-dust exposure regions to examine pulmonary function. Study 2 used 147 and 73 students in the high-/low-dust exposure regions, respectively, to establish our health education intervention. Paired
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