Banca de DEFESA: GISELLE CRISTINA ANDRADE PEREIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GISELLE CRISTINA ANDRADE PEREIRA
DATE: 24/11/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

Assessment of pesticide poisoning in rural workers in the city of Ji-Paraná-RO - RO

KEY WORDS:

Pesticides. Exposure. Personal Protective Equipment. Public Health. Rural workers.

PAGES: 139
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Saúde Coletiva
SUMMARY:

Pesticides, also known as pesticides or agricultural defensives, are chemical agents used to maximize the agricultural production process. The search for greater and better quality of the agricultural products has made pesticides consumption increase more and more. The use of pesticides, without adequate control, directly affects human health, causing systemic alterations, endocrine disruption and even chromosomal alterations. Knowing the commercialized pesticides and the changes caused by them in the population's health and in the environment are important steps toward elaboration of public policies of control and restriction. Thus, this epidemiological, observational and descriptive study evaluated the presence of signs and symptoms of pesticide poisoning in rural workers at Ji-Paraná-RO city. The research was carried out with 208 rural workers, who underwent clinical and laboratory evaluations, semistructured questionnaires regarding to socio-economic profile and health history record. It was also evaluated their pesticides uses, the use of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and pesticides handling process. There are 50% of workers using pesticides from herbicide group and from extremely toxic class. These individuals reported that they had read pesticide’s label and that they know about pesticides being harmful to health. However, we reached that most of them apply pesticides incorrectly and without proper use of PPEs. Most of them had sensorineural, neurocognitive and motor alterations compatible with signs and symptoms of intoxication: 12% intoxicated and 9.3% with signs and symptoms of intoxication. Out of that, salivation, palpitation and nausea were the most significant symptoms (P= 0.000, 0.001 and 0.004 in the intoxicated group, respectively). In addition, liver metabolism was impaired when considering its analytes: triglycerides (P=0.028), LDL cholesterol (P=0.026), Oxaloacetic Transaminase (P<0.0001), and total bilirubin, direct and indirect bilirubin (P=0.002; P<0.001 and P=0.015 respectively in the intoxicated group). This reaffirms the clinical diagnosis by laboratory criteria. The main indicator of liver function, Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), presented P=0.547. We believe that this fact is due to the greater exposure to agrochemicals of non-intoxicated individuals who feel healthy and maintain their work routine. These achievements alert to the importance of a rigorous action of awareness, monitoring and inspection of the use of pesticides. This study highlights the need of training in handling chemical products, especially among agricultural workers.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1682014 - DEBORA DE OLIVEIRA LOPES
Externa à Instituição - DENISE CRISTINA ALVES DE MOURA
Interno - 1544480 - EDUARDO SERGIO DA SILVA
Interno - 1680474 - FABIO VIEIRA DOS SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - SIMONE DA FONSECA PIRES - IFMG