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Cross-sectional study of social behaviors in preschool children and exposure to flame retardants

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, March 2017
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Title
Cross-sectional study of social behaviors in preschool children and exposure to flame retardants
Published in
Environmental Health, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12940-017-0224-6
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Shannon T. Lipscomb, Megan M. McClelland, Megan MacDonald, Andres Cardenas, Kim A. Anderson, Molly L. Kile

Abstract

Children are exposed to flame retardants from the built environment. Brominated diphenyl ethers (BDE) and organophosphate-based flame retardants (OPFRs) are associated with poorer neurocognitive functioning in children. Less is known, however, about the association between these classes of compounds and children's emotional and social behaviors. The objective of this study was to determine if flame retardant exposure was associated with measurable differences in social behaviors among children ages 3-5 years. We examined teacher-rated social behaviors measured using the Social Skills Improvement Rating Scale (SSIS) and personal exposure to flame retardants in children aged 3-5 years who attended preschool (n = 72). Silicone passive samplers worn for 7 days were used to assess personal exposure to 41 compounds using gas chromatography-mass spectrophotometer. These concentrations were then summed into total BDE and total OPFR exposure prior to natural log transformation. Separate generalized additive models were used to evaluate the relationship between seven subscales of the SSIS and lnΣBDE or lnΣOPFR adjusting for other age, sex, adverse social experiences, and family context. All children were exposed to a mixture of flame retardant compounds. We observed a dose dependent relationship between lnΣOPFR and two subscales where children with higher exposures were rated by their preschool teachers as having less responsible behavior (p = 0.07) and more externalizing behavior problems (p = 0.03). Additionally, children with higher lnΣBDE exposure were rated by teachers as less assertive (p = 0.007). We observed a cross-sectional association between children's exposure to flame retardant compounds and teacher-rated social behaviors among preschool-aged children. Children with higher flame retardant exposures exhibited poorer social skills in three domains that play an important role in a child's ability to succeed academically and socially.

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Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 107 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 14%
Researcher 15 14%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 33 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 16 15%
Psychology 7 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 6%
Social Sciences 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Other 26 24%
Unknown 41 38%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 208. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 November 2020.
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#174,471
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#66
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#3,940
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Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#4
of 38 outputs
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