Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Pesticide exposure and suicidal ideation in rural communities in Zhejiang province, China

Jianmin Zhang, Robert Stewart, Michael Phillips, Qichang Shi & Martin Prince

Volume 87, Number 10, October 2009, 745-753

Table 1. Associations between pesticide storage at home and demographic, socioeconomic and clinical characteristics, Zhejiang province, China, 2001

Characteristic	No. of respondents (Total = 9159)	Percentage reporting pesticide storage at home^a	OR^a	95% CI^a	P-value (Wald χ²)
Gender
Male	4591	55.6	1.00		< 0.001
Female	4568	49.8	0.79	0.72–0.87	< 0.001
Age
≤ 34 years	3206	49.7	1.00		0.001^b
35–49 years	2990	55.4	1.26	1.13–1.41
≥ 50 years	2963	54.2	1.20	1.07–1.34
Duration of education
≥ 10 years	800	42.9	1.00		< 0.001^b
6–9 years	3980	53.5	1.53	1.29–1.81
≤ 5 years	4379	54.2	1.58	1.33–1.86
Annual per capita household income
≥ 5000 renminbi	3008	43.2	1.00		< 0.001^b
2500–4999 renminbi	3120	59.7	1.95	1.74–2.18
< 2500 renminbi	3031	56.9	1.74	1.55–1.95
Rural stratum
Coastal region	1835	19.8	1.00		< 0.001^b
Plains region	2703	66.3	7.98	6.87–9.28
Mountain region	4621	60.5	6.22	5.41–7.15
Marital status
Never married	1491	46.3	1.00		< 0.001
Ever married	7668	54.3	1.38	1.22–1.56	< 0.001
Poor physical health
No	8428	52.5	1.00		0.096
Yes	731	56.1	1.16	0.97–1.37	0.096
Family history of suicidal behaviour
No	8805	52.1	1.00		< 0.001
Yes	354	69.8	2.12	1.65–2.72	< 0.001
GHQ caseness
No	7005	52.0	1.00		0.015
Yes	2154	55.4	1.14	1.03–1.28	0.015

CI, confidence interval; GHQ, General Health Questionnaire; OR, odds ratio.
^a All percentages, odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were adjusted for design effects and clustering (see statistical methods).
^b Result of the test for linear trend is statistically significant.