Salameh Pascale R, Baldi Isabelle, Brochard Patrick, Abi Saleh Bernadette
Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Environ Res. 2004 Jan;94(1):1-6. doi: 10.1016/s0013-9351(03)00092-6.
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 safety education is necessary in order to induce protective behavior among agricultural workers. The general population may also benefit from increasing their awareness regarding pesticides.
尽管农药具有已知的毒性，但在发展中国家仍被广泛使用。评估其使用模式对于评估适当干预措施的适宜性将是很有意思的。通过使用标准化问卷，在黎巴嫩的两个地区开展了一项知识、态度和实践研究，将一组农业工人与普通人群的工人以及第三组农药经销商进行了比较。农业工人在种植、混合、装载和施用农药期间均有接触（100%）。与农药经销商和普通人群的工人相比，他们的农药知识水平较低（P<10⁻⁷）。他们采取的预防措施较少，而且知识水平越低，所采取的预防措施也越少（P<10⁻³）。有必要开展农药安全教育，以促使农业工人形成保护行为。普通人群也可能会从提高对农药的认识中受益。
