Adolescents Agriculture Workers' Knowledge and Practices about Pesticides Hazardous

Samir Mahmoud, Amany; Guirguis Ragheb, Seham; Abo Bakar Abd Ellatif, Mona

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2025.454875

Adolescents Agriculture Workers' Knowledge and Practices about Pesticides Hazardous

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ 1. M.S.N., Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University.

² 2. Professor of Family &Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University.

³ 3. Assistant Professor of Family &Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University.

10.21608/ejhc.2025.454875

Abstract

Background: Pesticides have become an integral part of present day farming, and play a major role in increasing agricultural productivity. However, the indiscriminate and extensive use of pesticides represents one of the major environmental and public health problems faced by adolescents' workers all over the world. The aim of this study: Assess the adolescents' agriculture workers' knowledge and practices about pesticides hazardous. Study Design: A descriptive research design was utilized to fulfill the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted at 2 governmental preparatory schools in the rural of Fayoum governorate. Subjects: A purposive sample consisted of 163 preparatory school students. Tools: Tool was used for data collection to assess the adolescents' agriculture workers' knowledge and practices related of pesticides handling. Results: The study results showed that, 81.0% of adolescent students were their age range from 13-15 years and 56.4% of students were females. 63.2% of adolescent students had unsatisfactory knowledge, while 63.8% of them had inadequate pesticides handling practices. Conclusion: There was a positive correlation between total knowledge and total practices among studied adolescents regarding to pesticides handling with r=.166 and with p value ˃ 0.001. Recommendation: Further research need to be conducted with a wide scale and in another high density schools, as first aid program for students who working in agriculture to assess the effectiveness of intervention associated with changes in health behavior outcomes and generalize the results.

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