Table 1 Summary of measurements included in prior randomized cookstove intervention studies
Name/Location of intervention study | Key publications | Intervention description | Types of Measurements Included | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stove use/acceptability | Emissions | Personal exposure | Micro-environment | Health | Regional air quality | |||
RESPIRE/CRECER Highland Guatemala | Collection of studies involved interventions with 500+ households using plancha improved stoves, gas stoves, and traditional (open fire) control groups | Quarterly stove use questionnaires; SUMs | Not measured in field | CO, PM2.5 | CO, TSP, PM10, PM3.5, PM2.5 | Blood pressure, acute illness (pneumonia), self-reported health symptoms | Not measured | |
Patsari/Michoacan, Mexico | Collection of studies involved interventions with 600 households using Pastari (ICS) and traditional (open fires) control group | Monthly visits reporting stove use | Field cooking tests (KPTs, WBTs and CCTs) and lab testing (WBT) in addition to GHG emissions measurements | CO, PM2.5 | Kitchen/Indoor/Outdoor/Community Plaza for CO, PM2.5 | Spirometry tests to measure lung function, blood samples, and self-reported health symptoms | PM2.5 | |
Juntos and Barrick/ Peru | Two Intervention Programs; Juntos National (A), Barrick Gold Corp. (B) with 57+ households using improved custom brick stoves and traditional (open fire) group for baseline | Questionnaire & time use diaries at enrollment and 3 weeks after stove installation | Not measured | CO, PM2.5 | Kitchen CO, PM2.5 | Hydroxylate PAH biomarkers from urine samples | Not measured | |
DelAgua EcoZoom/Rwanda | 566 households in three villages; EcoZoom Dura stove vs traditional. Intervention also included water filters | Surveys measuring acceptability and stove use conducted monthly for five months; SUMs on subset of stoves | No field measurements in Rwanda intervention study, but field-based emissions testing using same stove conducted in Uganda [34] | Not done in this study, but planned for follow-up | Kitchen PM2.5 | Not done in this study, but planned for follow-up | Not measured | |
Surya/Indo-Gangetic Plains | Collection of studies involved interventions with 480+ households using a variety of improved biomass stoves, and traditional (mud/open fire) control groups | Surveys, Wireless Cookstove Sensing System (WiCS) (in development) | BC (Concentrations only) | Breathing zone BC | Kitchens/Outdoor BC and OC | Self-reported health symptoms | Regional BC and OC modeling | |
Ghana Sissala West | [38] | Intervention of 500+ households using constructed mud/brick stove and traditional (open fire) control groups | Surveyed participants on cooking activity and fuel wood gathering, SUMs | Not measured | CO | Not measured | Self-reported health symptoms | Not measured |
India | [27] | Price experiment that tested 2 nontraditional cookstoves over 2,280 households. | Surveys used to access perceptions of stoves, health knowledge, socioeconomic status | Not Measured | Not Measured | Not Measured | Self-reported health symptoms | Not Measured |
India | [13] | 2,651 household intervention study subsidizing construction of inexpensive, locally-made mud stoves. Households responsible for providing mud, labor, and small payment for masonry and maintenance. Public lottery randomly assigned order of construction and distribution. | Three surveys in four years used to gauge stove usage, cooking activity, fuel expenditures, and perceptions about their efficacy | Not Measured | CO | Not Measured | Self-reported health symptoms, anthropometrics, spirometry tests to measure lung function | Not Measured |
REACCTING, K-N District in Ghana | Work described here | 200 household intervention study. Two types of biomass stoves introduced. | Surveys and SUMs | Controlled cooking tests in field | CO, PM2.5 | CO and PM2.5 on a subset of homes | Biomarkers of inflammation from blood samples, anthropometrics, self-reported health questionnaires | Regional CO, NO, O3, and CO2 monitoring |