Citation

Joko T, Dewanti NAY, Dangiran HL. J. Environ. Public Health 2020; 2020: e5379619.

Affiliation

Department of Environmental Health, Diponegoro University, Semarang 50271, Indonesia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2020/5379619

PMID

32405302

PMCID

PMC7201457

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the poisoning symptoms occurring in pesticide-exposed farmers. This study was conducted in a red onion farming center area in Wanasari Subdistrict, Brebes, Indonesia, from May to June 2018. This study was designed as the descriptive study. The significance value of p < 0.005 showed that the variable was correlated with the health problems, including excessive fatigue (p value = 0.041), excessive saliva (p value = 0.006), hard breathing (p value = 0.021), frequent urination (p value = 0.047), blurred vision (p value = 0.059), dizziness (p value = 0.032), and finger pain (p value = 0.007). The significance value (p < 0.005) of 0.000 showed that the use of personal protective equipment was correlated with the health problems. Based on the odds ratio value of 1.137, 95% confidence interval = 0.042-0.444 meant that the personal protective equipment was a risk factor of health problems. The results showed that 89.2% of the farmers who used the personal protective equipment were categorized in the healthy group.

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Language: en