Self-poisoning with pesticides in Jiangsu Province, China: a cross-sectional study on 24,602 subjects

• Published in: BMC psychiatry Vol. 20; no. 1; p. 545
• Main Authors: Wang, Boshen, Han, Lei, Wen, Jinbo, Zhang, Juan, Zhu, Baoli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 23.11.2020; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Aged; Agriculture; China - epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographic aspects; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Female; Females; Food; Forecasts and trends; Health aspects; Humans; Ingestion; Insecticides; Male; Mental disorders; Organophosphates; Patient outcomes; Pesticides; Poisoning; Poisoning - epidemiology; Population; Provinces; Psychiatry; Rural areas; Self-poisoning; Standard of living; Suicide; Suicide prevention; Suicides & suicide attempts; China; Pesticide; Cross-sectional study; Self-poisoning

With an estimated > 800,000 suicide-related deaths and potentially several attempts for each death in the world. The purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological characteristics of self-poisoning with pesticides within the Jiangsu province in China. Suicide rate was calculated the R...