@article{ref1,
title="Pesticides in Lebanon: a knowledge, attitude, and practice study",
journal="Environmental research",
year="2004",
author="Salameh, Pascale R. and Baldi, Isabelle and Brochard, Patrick and Abi Saleh, Bernadette",
volume="94",
number="1",
pages="1-6",
abstract="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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0013-9351",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}