Comparison of a Barcode-Based Smartphone Application to a Questionnaire to Assess the Use of Cleaning Products at Home and Their Association with Asthma Symptoms

Pierre Lemire, Sofia Temam, Sarah Lyon-Caen, Catherine Quinot, Etienne Sévin, Sophie Remacle, Karine Supernant, Rémy Slama, Orianne Dumas, Valérie Siroux, Nicole Le Moual and the SEPAGES Study Group
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Pierre Lemire: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
Sofia Temam: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
Sarah Lyon-Caen: University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), 38000 Grenoble, France
Catherine Quinot: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
Etienne Sévin: Epiconcept, 75011 Paris, France
Sophie Remacle: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
Karine Supernant: University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), 38000 Grenoble, France
Rémy Slama: University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), 38000 Grenoble, France
Orianne Dumas: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
Valérie Siroux: University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), 38000 Grenoble, France
Nicole Le Moual: Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Université Paris-Sud, Inserm, Équipe d’Épidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, 94807 Villejuif, France
the SEPAGES Study Group: Membership of the SEPAGES Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 7, 1-13

Abstract: Household disinfectant and cleaning products (HDCPs) assessment is challenging in epidemiological research. We hypothesized that a newly-developed smartphone application was more objective than questionnaires in assessing HDCPs. Therefore, we aimed to compare both methods, in terms of exposure assessments and respiratory health effects estimates. The women of the SEPAGES birth cohort completed repeated validated questionnaires on HDCPs and respiratory health and used an application to report HDCPs and scan products barcodes, subsequently linked with an ingredients database. Agreements between the two methods were assessed by Kappa coefficients. Logistic regression models estimated associations of HDCP with asthma symptom score. The 101 participants (18 with asthma symptom score ?1) scanned 617 different products (580 with available ingredients list). Slight to fair agreements for sprays, bleach and scented HDCP were observed (Kappa: 0.35, 0.25, 0.11, respectively). Strength of the associations between HDCP and asthma symptom score varied between both methods but all odds ratios (OR) were greater than one. The number of scanned products used weekly was significantly associated with the asthma symptom score (adjusted-OR [CI 95%]: 1.15 [1.00–1.32]). This study shows the importance of using novel tools in epidemiological research to objectively assess HDCP and therefore reduce exposure measurement errors.

Keywords: household cleaning products; asthma; smartphone application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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