Keywords

brick manufacturing; brick worker; international occupational health; occupational expo-sure; respirable silica

Data Set Description Summary

A quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted over an approximately three-year period with sample collection events occurring March 13-21, 2023, March 17 – 23, 2024, and February 18 – 26, 2025. Samples were taken across 4 brick kilns in Bhaktapur, Nepal, including Kiln 1 in 2023, Kiln 2 in 2024, and Kilns 3 and 4 in 2025. Participants (N = 248) were recruited by convenience sampling from kiln 1 (n = 49), kiln 2 (n = 70), kiln 3 (n = 69), and kiln 4 (n = 60).

Document Type

Data

Publication Date

2026-09-23

Data Collection Start Date

13-3-2023

Data Collection End Date

26-2-2025

Language

English

Funding Information

External funding was provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), award number T42OH008414. Several internal funding sources also made this research possible, including the BYU Simmons Research Endowment, which partially funded this study through an internal Interdisciplinary Research (IRD) grant. Internal funding from BYU was also provided by the John A. Widtsoe Innovative Research Grant, the Roger and Victoria Sant Educa-tional Endowment for a Sustainable Environment, and through College of Life Sciences Under-graduate Research Awards (CURAs).

College

Life Sciences

Department

Public Health

University Standing at time of data collection

Full Professor

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