Educational Intervention Effects on Pesticide-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, Exposure, and Health Among Ugandan Smallholder Farmers: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Peter Ssekkadde e outros, 2025 · International Journal of Public Health
A two-day pesticide safety training combined with behavioral text messages reduced smallholder farmers' pesticide exposure intensity score by 1.64 percentage points compared to control.
Estimativa · Exposure intensity score (EIS), percentage of maximum score (percentage points)
-1,64 [-2,52; -0,610]
percentage points
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster RCT across 12 subcounties (clusters)
- População
- Smallholder farmers cultivating pesticide-intensive crops in Kumi and Sembabule districts, Uganda (2020–2021)
- Amostra
- 494 · farmers completing 12-month follow-up (out of 539 randomized across 12 subcounties)
Onde está o número
Results > Intervention Effects on Outcomes > EIS During Application; Section 'Results > Intervention Effects on Outcomes > EIS During Application', paragraph 1
At follow-up, farmers in both the educational intervention and educational + text message intervention groups showed significantly reduced EIS compared with the control group (B = −1.21%, 95% CI: −2.15, −0.10; B = −1.64%, 95% CI: −2.52, −0.61, respectively; see Supplementary Table S6).
Contexto
What changed: A two-day in-person training on safe pesticide handling followed by 20 behavior-change text messages over 8 months. Comparison: Control group of farmers receiving no training or text messages. Limits: Self-reported application practices rather than biological markers of exposure, and 12-month follow-up.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInformação e persuasão
- TipoCapacitação e aconselhamento
- EixoPoluição química
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Lugares do estudo
- Uganda · País · UG
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23