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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
卷 94, 期 1, 页码 1-6出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-9351(03)00092-6
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agriculture; pesticides; occupational exposure; behavior; prevention
Pesticides, despite their known toxicity, are widely used in developing countries. Evaluating the pattern of their use would be interesting to assess the appropriateness of adequate intervention. Using a standardized questionnaire, a knowledge, attitude, and practice study was performed in two Lebanese regions, in which a group of agricultural workers was compared to workers of the general population and a third group of pesticide distributors. Agricultural workers were exposed to pesticides during cropping, mixing, loading, and application (100%). They had low pesticide knowledge scales compared to pesticide distributors and to the general population workers (p < 10(-7)). The preventive measures they took were low, and the lower their knowledge was, the lower were the preventive measures applied (p < 10(-3)). Pesticide safky education is necessary in order to induce protective behavior among agricultural workers. The general population may also benefit from increasing their awareness regarding pesticides. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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