Depressive symptoms and severity of acute occupational pesticide poisoning among male farmers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 303-309

  Kim, Jaeyoung ^a   Ko, Yousun ^b   Lee, Won Jin ^b  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAQUAT;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EYE IRRITATION; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LACRIMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PARALYSIS; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINORRHEA; SKIN IRRITATION; SLURRED SPEECH; SORE THROAT; SOUTH KOREA; SWEATING; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84877607146     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101005     Document Type: Article

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