NCT04633135

Research on Emissions, Air Quality, Climate and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Boulder · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

REACCTING (Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana) is an interdisciplinary randomized cookstove intervention study in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana. The study tests two types of biomass burning stoves that have the potential to meet local cooking needs and represent different "rungs" in the cookstove technology ladder: a locally-made, low-tech Gyapa rocket stove and the imported, highly efficient Philips gasifier stove. Intervention households were randomized into four different groups, three of which received different combinations of two improved stoves, while the fourth group serves as a control for the duration of the study. Diverse measurements assess different points along the causal chain linking the intervention to final outcomes of interest. The investigators assess stove use and cooking behavior, cooking emissions, household air pollution and personal exposure, health burden, and local to regional air quality. Integrated analysis and modeling will tackle a range of interdisciplinary science questions, including examining ambient exposures among the regional population, assessing how those exposures might change with different technologies and behaviors, and estimating the comparative impact of local behavior and technological changes versus regional climate variability and change on local air quality and health outcomes.

Conditions

• Inflammation
• Growth Retardation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Philips stove	Philips Smokeless stove HD4012LS
DEVICE	Gyapa stove	Wood stove made in Ghana

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2020-11-18
• Last updated: 2020-11-18