10.2190/141C-2RY2-NJC3-AMMB 141C2RY2NJC3AMMB 3 An Evaluation of Critical Factors Associated with Design, Protocol, Implementation and Data Management of Large-Scale Multipollutant Indoor Air Quality Field Studies 279 293 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 141C2RY2NJC3AMMB.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=141C2RY2NJC3AMMB 4 Jerome P. Harper Alan R. Hawthorne Charles S. Dudney Division of Conservation and Energy Management, Tennessee Valley Authority Health and Safety Research Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Large-scale multipollutant indoor air quality field studies must be designed and conducted to satisfy a broad array of scientific and programmatic interests of its sponsors. A comparative evaluation to identify critical factors associated with field study design, protocol, implementation, and data management problems and issues was done based on experiences of three multipollutant studies. These studies involved over 400 residences in the States of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Critical factors identified and discussed in this comparative evaluation are: factorial study design; participant selection and communications; interactive effects; regional and environmental variability; relational database management; new protocol evaluations; and multiple sponsor coordination. Field study data and methodologies are used to support and illustrate the comparative assessment of objectives and practices. A. R. Hawthorne, R. B. Gammage, and C. S. Dudney, An Indoor Air Quality Study of Forty East Tennessee Homes, <i>Environment International</i>, in press (1988). C. S. Dudney and A. R. Hawthorne, <i>Analysis of Indoor Air Quality Data from East Tennessee Field Studies</i>, ORNL/TM-9588, National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, 1985. C. S. Dudney, A. R. Hawthorne, K. P. Monar, C. Clark, R. W. Doane, T. G. Wallace, and R. P. Reed, Radon and Radon Progeny in Seventy Houses in the Tennessee Valley Area: Study Design and Measurement Methods, in <i>Proceedings of the APCA Specialty Meeting on Indoor Radon</i>, Philadelphia, PA, in press (1986). A. R. Hawthorne, C. S. Dudney, T. G. Matthews, K. P. Monar, and J. L. Quillen, Experimental Protocol and Preliminary Results of Air Infiltration Rate Measurements in the Tennessee Valley Homes, in <i>79th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association</i>, Minneapolis, MN, 1986. C. S. Dudney, W. G. Dreibelbis, A. R. Hawthorne, T. G. Matthews, K. P. Monar, J. L. Quillen, and D. L. Wilson, Indoor Pollutant Levels in Severity Houses in the Tennessee Valley Area: Study Design and Measurement Methods, in <i>Proceedings of the APCA Specialty Meeting on Measurement of Toxic Air Pollutants</i>, Raleigh, NC, in press (1986). W. A. Turner, J. D. Spengler, and V. A. Marple, Indoor Aerosol Impactor, presented at EPA National Symposium on Recent Advances in the Measurement of Air Pollutants, Raleigh, NC, May 1985. R. D. Evans, Engineers Guide to the Elementary Behavior of Radon Daughters, <i>Health Physics, 17</i>, pp. 229-252, 1969. T. G. Matthews, T. J. Reed, C. R. Daffron, and A. R. Hawthorne, Environmental Dependence of Formaldehyde Emissions from Pressed-Wood Products: Experimental Studies and Modeling, in <i>Proceedings of 18th International Washington State University Particle Board/Composite Materials Symposium</i>, Pullman, WA, 1984. J. D. Spengler, M. P. Reed, E. Lebret, B. H. Chang, J. H. Ware, F. E. Speizer, and B. G. Ferris, Harvard's Indoor Air Pollution/Health Study, in <i>79th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association</i>, Minneapolis, MN, 1986. B. G. Ferris, F. E. Speizer, J. D. Spengler, D. W. Dockery, Y. M. M. Bishop, M. Wolfson, and C. Humble, Effects of Sulfur Oxides and Respirable Particulates on Human Health; Methodology and Demography of Population in Study, <i>American Review of Respiratory Disease, 120</i>, pp. 767-779, 1979.