Symptoms of psychological distress and suicidal ideation among banana workers with a history of poisoning by organophosphate or n-methyl carbamate pesticides

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 778-784

  Wesseling, Catharina ^a   Van Wendel De Joode, Berna ^a   Keifer, Matthew ^b   London, Leslie ^c   Mergler, Donna ^d   Stallones, Lorann ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BANANA PLANTATION; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CARBAMATES; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149396541     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.047266     Document Type: Article

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