Cleaning Tasks and Products and Asthma Among Healthcare Professionals

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Patel, Jenil ; Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, David ; Mitchell, Laura E. ; Carson, Arch ; Whitehead, Lawrence W. ; Han, Inkyu ; Pompeii, Lisa ; Conway, Sadie ; Zock, Jan-Paul ; Henneberger, Paul K. ; Patel, Riddhi ; De Los Reyes, Joy ; Delclos, George L.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk for work-related asthma, which may be affected by changes in cleaning practices. We examined associations of cleaning tasks and products with work-related asthma in HCWs in 2016, comparing them to prior results from 2003.
  
  Methods:
  
  We estimated asthma prevalence by professional group, and explored associations of self-reported asthma with job-exposure matrix-based cleaning tasks/products in a representative Texas sample of 9914 physicians, nurses, respiratory/occupational therapists, and nurse aides. .
  
  Results:
  
  Response rate was 34.8%(n=2,421). The weighted prevalences of physician-diagnosed(15.3%), work-exacerbated (4.1%), and new-onset asthma(NOA) (6.7%), and bronchial hyperresponsiveness symptoms(31.1%) were similar to 2003. NOA was associated with building surface cleaning(OR=1.91; 95%CI:1.10–3.33), use of orthophthalaldehyde(OR=1.77; 95%CI:1.15–2.72), bleach/quaternary compounds(OR=1.91; 95%CI:1.10–3.33), and sprays(OR=1.97; 95%CI:1.12–3.47).
  
  Conclusion:
  
  Prevalence of asthma/BHR appears unchanged, whereas associations of NOA with exposures to surface cleaning remained, and decreased for instrument cleaning.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Asthma Detergents Health Personnel Humans Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupations Physicians
• Keywords:
  Asthma Cleaning Products Health Care Occupational Risk Factors
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 66(1):28-34
• Pubmed ID:
  37801602
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10841035
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30 ES013508/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH010648/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T42 OH008421/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:d076a93ca5a2a83af4ffa16848e4d77372744e53b3f7a647bb3425f75cefb1526d23b7fa29eaa448b16b11af7c60c1abb1dc0268e82a2bf2dd1e38e414f3633b
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