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일부 농업인에서의 농약 중독증상과 농약 사용정보에 대한 예비조사A Pilot Study for Pesticide Poisoning Symptoms and Information on Pesticide Use among Farmers

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A Pilot Study for Pesticide Poisoning Symptoms and Information on Pesticide Use among Farmers
Authors
김현중이원진차은실문은경고유선김재영정미혜
Issue Date
2011
Publisher
한국환경보건학회
Keywords
agricultural workers; occupational exposure; pesticide poisoning; symptoms; validity
Citation
한국환경보건학회지, v.37, no.1, pp.22 - 28
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KCI
Journal Title
한국환경보건학회지
Volume
37
Number
1
Start Page
22
End Page
28
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/114254
ISSN
1738-4087
Abstract
This study aimed to determine the feasibility of survey questionnaires for pesticide poisoning. We conducted a pilot study to develop a questionnaire for evaluating pesticide poisoning symptoms and to examine the validity of self-reported information for individual pesticides used. In December 2010 we interviewed 20 farmers with self-reported pesticide poisoning histories residing in Gyeonggi Province. For validity of pesticide information, the purchased pes-ticide lists from the agricultural cooperative federation were compared with individual self-reported pesticides used. Neurological symptoms were the most common among clinical symptoms related to pesticide poisoning, followed by gastrointestinal, dermal and eye symptoms. Insecticides were the main causative pesticide class for poisoning. Twenty one major symptoms were selected for screening for acute pesticide poisoning in a field study based on the pilot results and literature reviews. Substantial under-reporting was found in data on self-reported individual pesticides used (9.2%),as well as low accuracy (36%) compared with their actual purchase lists. In this pilot study, we suggest the selected symptom lists may apply to a field survey of pesticide poisoning. However, the self-reported information on individual pesticides may not be valid and alternative methods need to be developed.
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