TY - JOUR
T1 - Young children's hand contact activities
T2 - An observational study via videotaping in primarily outdoor residential settings
AU - AuYeung, Willa
AU - Canales, Robert A.
AU - Beamer, Paloma
AU - Ferguson, Alesia C.
AU - Leckie, James O.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors specially thank Kelly Naylor, Nolan Cabrera, Sandy Robertson, Kevin Lee, Amy Munninghoff, Veronica Vieira, Jessica Ramirez, and Angela Lin for their invaluable help in collecting the data presented in this paper. This project was supported by EPA STAR grant #R82936201, ORETF Study #ORF018, USEPA Contract #QT-RT-99-001182, and UPS Foundation grant #2DDA103. This research has not been subject to federal peer and policy review and therefore does not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. No official endorsement should be inferred.
PY - 2006/9/26
Y1 - 2006/9/26
N2 - Microlevel activity time series (MLATS) data were gathered on hand contact activities of 38 children (1-6 years old) by videotaping in primarily outdoor residential environments. The videotape recordings were then translated into text files using a specialized software called VirtualTimingDevice™. Contact frequency (contacts/h), duration per contact (s/contact), and hourly contact duration (min/h) were summarized for outdoor hand contacts with 15 distinct object/surface categories ("Animal", "Body", "Clothes/Towels", "Fabric", "Floor", "Food", "Footwear", "Metal", "Non-dietary Water", "Paper/Wrapper", "Plastic", "Rock/Brick", "Toys", "Vegetation/Grass", and "Wood") and two aggregate object/surface categories ("Non-dietary objects/surfaces" and "Total objects/surfaces"). For outdoor both hand contacts with "Total objects/surfaces", contact frequencies ranged from 229.9 to 1517.7 contacts/h, median durations/contact ranged from <1 to 5 s, and hourly contact durations ranged from 42.6 to 102.2 m/h. The data were analyzed for significant differences in hand contact activities as a function of (1) age, (2) location, (3) gender, and (4) hand. Significant differences (P≤0.05) were found for all four factors analyzed. Hourly contact durations with "Non-dietary objects/surfaces" and "Total objects/surfaces" increased with age (P=0.01, rs=0.42 and P=0.005, rs=0.46, respectively), while contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Wood" decreased with age (P=0.02, r s=-0.38 and P=0.05, rs=-0.32, respectively). Location was found to affect contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with certain objects/surfaces. For example, contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Fabric" were higher indoors (P=0.02 for both), while contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Vegetation/Grass" were higher outdoors (P=0.02 and P=0.04, respectively). Girls had longer hourly contact durations with "Footwear" (P=0.02), "Non-dietary objects/surfaces" (P=0.03), and "Total objects/surfaces" (P=0.01) than boys. The right hand had longer hourly contact durations with objects that are often manipulated with the hand (e.g., "Toys" (P=0.0002)), while the left hand had longer hourly contact durations with passively touched objects/surfaces (e.g., "Clothes/Towels" (P=0.003) and "Floor" (P=0.04)).
AB - Microlevel activity time series (MLATS) data were gathered on hand contact activities of 38 children (1-6 years old) by videotaping in primarily outdoor residential environments. The videotape recordings were then translated into text files using a specialized software called VirtualTimingDevice™. Contact frequency (contacts/h), duration per contact (s/contact), and hourly contact duration (min/h) were summarized for outdoor hand contacts with 15 distinct object/surface categories ("Animal", "Body", "Clothes/Towels", "Fabric", "Floor", "Food", "Footwear", "Metal", "Non-dietary Water", "Paper/Wrapper", "Plastic", "Rock/Brick", "Toys", "Vegetation/Grass", and "Wood") and two aggregate object/surface categories ("Non-dietary objects/surfaces" and "Total objects/surfaces"). For outdoor both hand contacts with "Total objects/surfaces", contact frequencies ranged from 229.9 to 1517.7 contacts/h, median durations/contact ranged from <1 to 5 s, and hourly contact durations ranged from 42.6 to 102.2 m/h. The data were analyzed for significant differences in hand contact activities as a function of (1) age, (2) location, (3) gender, and (4) hand. Significant differences (P≤0.05) were found for all four factors analyzed. Hourly contact durations with "Non-dietary objects/surfaces" and "Total objects/surfaces" increased with age (P=0.01, rs=0.42 and P=0.005, rs=0.46, respectively), while contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Wood" decreased with age (P=0.02, r s=-0.38 and P=0.05, rs=-0.32, respectively). Location was found to affect contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with certain objects/surfaces. For example, contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Fabric" were higher indoors (P=0.02 for both), while contact frequencies and hourly contact durations with "Vegetation/Grass" were higher outdoors (P=0.02 and P=0.04, respectively). Girls had longer hourly contact durations with "Footwear" (P=0.02), "Non-dietary objects/surfaces" (P=0.03), and "Total objects/surfaces" (P=0.01) than boys. The right hand had longer hourly contact durations with objects that are often manipulated with the hand (e.g., "Toys" (P=0.0002)), while the left hand had longer hourly contact durations with passively touched objects/surfaces (e.g., "Clothes/Towels" (P=0.003) and "Floor" (P=0.04)).
KW - Activity pattern
KW - Dermal exposure
KW - Hand contact behavior
KW - Microlevel activity
KW - Non-dietary exposure
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U2 - 10.1038/sj.jes.7500480
DO - 10.1038/sj.jes.7500480
M3 - Article
C2 - 16552427
AN - SCOPUS:33748695287
VL - 16
SP - 434
EP - 446
JO - Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
SN - 1559-0631
IS - 5
ER -