Heat Stress Exposure Among Low-Income Residents in Bangladesh and Evaluation of Indoor Interventions

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if infrastructure and equipment installed to cool homes reduce adverse health outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the impact of the intervention on indoor heat stress? What is the impact of the intervention on personal exposure to heat stress? What is the impact of the intervention on health outcomes, including heart rate, and heart rate variability, and sleep quality? Participants will have cooling infrastructure and/or equipment installed in their home; have heat stress sensors installed inside and outside their home and wear personal heat stress monitors; allow some biological functions such as heat rate, heat rate variability, and sleep quality.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria for the house:

* House is located in an informal settlement in an urban area in Bangladesh
* The house has a corrugated iron roof and corrugated iron walls
* The household plans to remain in the house from Feb-Nov

Exclusion Criteria for the house

* There is an inhabited structure about the house
* The landlord does not allow the proposed intervention

Inclusion Criteria for the participant:

* Lives in an eligible household

Exclusion Criteria for the participant

* Has access to air conditioning in their home or place of work
* Reports they are pregnant
* Has hypertension, as measured by study staff
* Has diabetes, as measured by study staff
* Self-reports cardiovascular disease / chronic cardiac condition
* Self-reports respiratory disease / chronic respiratory condition

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