participant experiences in a breastmilk biomonitoring study a qualitative assessment参与者的经历在母乳生物监测的研究定性评估.pdf

Environmental Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Participant experiences in a breastmilk biomonitoring study: A qualitative assessment 1 1 2 3 Nerissa Wu* , Michael D McClean , Phil Brown , Ann Aschengrau and Thomas F Webster 1 Address: 1Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA, 2Department of Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, USA and 3Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA Email: Nerissa Wu* - nerissa.wu@; Michael D McClean - mmcclean@; Phil Brown - Phil_Brown@; Ann Aschengrau - aaschen@; Thomas F Webster - twebster@ * Corresponding author Published: 18 February 2009 Received: 9 July 2008 Accepted: 18 February 2009 Environmental Health 2009, 8:4 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-4 This article is available from: /content/8/1/4 © 2009 Wu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Biomonitoring studies can provide information about individual and population- wide exposure. However they must be designed in a way that protects the rights and welfare of par