Trial reportEnvironmental health perspectives2021
Outcomes from Returning Individual versus Only Study-Wide Biomonitoring Results in an Environmental Exposure Study Using the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI).
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- Strategies to facilitate the report-back of research results: a systematic review of methods and evaluations.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Pooled it
- Current global practice and implications for future research on disseminating health research results to study participants: A systematic review.PLoS medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- The Effect of Individual or Study-Wide Report-Back on Knowledge, Concern, and Exposure-Reducing Behaviors Related to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Trial
- A personalized tutorial to improve understanding of individual chemical results and opportunities for reducing exposure.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Experiences of clinicians engaged in report-back of individual chemical exposures in two pregnancy cohorts.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- Associations Between Daily-Use Products and Urinary Biomarkers of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Adults of Reproductive Age.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene-Environment Interaction Research.Genetic epidemiology · 2025Review
- Words Matter: Reflective Science Communication and Tradeoffs in Environmental Health Research.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- A Personalized Intervention to Increase Environmental Health Literacy and Readiness to Change in a Northern Nevada Population: Effects of Environmental Chemical Exposure Report-Back.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Moving Forward with Reporting Back Individual Environmental Health Research Results.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Integrating participant feedback and concerns to improve community and individual level chemical exposure assessment reports.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Using environmental health dialogue in a Diné-centered approach for individualized results reporting in an environmental exposure study following the Gold King Mine Spill.Environmental research · 2023Article
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- Participant engagement to develop report-back materials for personal air monitoring.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Article
- Factors that Influence Environmental Health Literacy from Returning Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure Results.International public health journal · 2023Article
- Mi PROTECT: A personalized smartphone platform to report back results to participants of a maternal-child and environmental health research cohort program in Puerto Rico.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Perspectives of peripartum people on opportunities for personal and collective action to reduce exposure to everyday chemicals: Focus groups to inform exposure report-back.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Show Your Work: Increasing Engagement through Personalized Participant Report-Back.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- Returning Individual Tap Water Testing Results to Research Study Participants after a Wildfire Disaster.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudy participants want to receive their biomonitoring results for environmental chemicals, and ethics guidelines encourage reporting back. However, few studies have quantitively assessed participants' responses to individual exposure reports, and digital methods have not been evaluated.
objectivesWe isolated effects of receiving personal results vs. only study-wide findings and investigated whether effects differed for Black participants.
methodsWe randomly assigned a subset of 295 women from the Child Health and Development Studies, half of whom were Black, to receive a report with personal environmental chemical results or only study-wide (aggregate) findings. Reports included results for 42 chemicals and lipids and were prepared using the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI). Women were interviewed before and after viewing their report. We analyzed differences in website activity, emotional responses, and intentions to participate in future research by report type and race using Wilcoxon rank sum tests, Wilcoxon-Pratt signed ranks tests, and multiple regression.
resultsThe personal report group spent approximately twice as much time on their reports as the aggregate group before the post-report-back interview. Among personal-report participants (
conclusionsParticipants were motivated by their personal results to access online information about chemical sources and potential health effects. Report-back was associated with a small increase in worry, which could motivate appropriate action. Personal report-back increased engagement with exposure reports among Black participants. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP9072.
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