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Perception About the Use of Pesticides Against Household Insect Pests Among General Public of Baldia Town Karachi Ali Javed, Seema Tahir, Tahir Anwar and Imtiaz Ahmad International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 8, Issue 4, April-2017 1568 ISSN 2229-5518 Perception about the use of pesticides against household insect pests among general public of Baldia Town Karachi Ali Javed, Seema Tahir, Tahir Anwar and Imtiaz Ahmad ABSTRACT- Household pesticides are used commonly but very little is known about their hazards on their exposure, in the general public. In 2015 questionnaire based study was conducted in Baldia Town Karachi which revealed that with low socioeconomic background and less educated people were not aware about pesticides hazards and unsafe practices of storage and handling cause more exposure especially for children at homes. Various people complained ill health effects including breathing problem (35%), cough (33%), eye irritation (27%), allergy (26%) fever or cold (23%), running nose (17%), headache (14%), sneezing (14%), red eyes (10%) and required medical treatment. Among 201 respondents mosquito coils (73%), ant killer powder (57%), shampoo (54%), mosquito mat (44%), phenyl (44%), any spray with flit pump (32%) and mosquito cream (31%) were the pesticides used and stored in houses enhanced the exposure to humans especially children as in kitchen most pesticides (40%) are used. Because of reported ill health effects, pesticide is a serious threat to residents. So the handling and education about their use, storage and disposal of household pesticides and encouragement of safe alternatives would be effective to reduce the health risk problems in the general public. Keywords- Health, Hazards, Percepiions, Pesiticides Risk estimation, Risk management ________________________________________________________________ 1 INTRODUCTION Increased risk of Pediatric Brain Tumor was found by the use of flea/tick pesticides in mothers [8]. As found in a study relation between pesticide use and Neuroblastoma esticides are the chemicals which are used to control [9]. So there is a need to investigate the awareness about insectP pests in almost all households and in the agriculture pesticide use among general public about the health effects on a large scale. Little is known about their health effects and health hazards. In Pakistan the investigation was and related risks and hazards in general public. Adverse mostly conducted in the agricultural areas, about farmer's health effects are reported in many previous studies. People knowledge and proper usage of pesticides in Sindh suffered from in home pesticideIJSER use [1], people experienced province of Pakistan [10], [11] and the risk perception ill health effects by the use of mosquito repellents [2] and among farmers about pesticide use [12] and the farmer’s acute and chronic health risks are concerned with the use of perception about pesticides and fertilizer use in Sindh [13] mosquito coils [3] Agricultural insecticide exposure effected Findings showed that farmers had very little knowledge the functioning of lungs [4]. and had little awareness about pesticide hazards [14] and also from other countries as reported [15], [16], [17], but In some studies the use of pesticides may increase the there is little work reported about household pesticides in risk of some diseases, associations between home pesticide Pakistan. Investigation on household pesticides were use and childhood brain cancer was also reported [5]. conducted in other countries as reported in the literature Mosquito coil use may increase the risk of lung cancer [6]. [18], [19],[20], [21], [22], [23],[24] and pesticide use was Home pesticide use may be related with some types of improperly done in many households mainly due to less childhood cancer [7]. knowledge [25]. _____________________________________ · Ali Javed is a Research fellow and Dr. Seema Tahir is The present study is conducted in the city area of Baldia Town, Karachi to investigate the awareness of household Proffessor in the Deptartment o Zoology, Uniersity of Karachi, Karachi. pesticide use and their ill health effects. The study area is · Dr. Tahir Anwar is (corresponding author) Iincharge, Pest located in the west part of Karachi. It is surrounded by Managment Research Institute (PMRI),Southern Zone Agricultural Kimari Town, Orangi Town and Site Town from West, East Research Centre, Pakisatn Agricultural Research Council, and Southern side. It is further divided into eight Union University Campus, Karachi. E-mail: tahirkhanawar_parc@yahoo Councils (Figure 1), as UC-1 (Gulshan-e-Ghazi), UC-2 · Imtiaz Ahmad is ........Prof M. A. H. Qadri Biological Research Centre, Department of Agriculture, University of Karachi (Ittehad Town), UC-3 (Islam Nagar), UC-4 (Nai Abadi), UC- 5 (Saeedabad), UC-6 (Muslim Mujahid Colony), UC-7 IJSER © 2017 http://www.ijser.org International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 8, Issue 4, April-2017 1569 ISSN 2229-5518 (Muhajir Camp) and UC-8 (Rasheedabad) and contains 4 with concerned authorities. lacs of population according to district census reported west Karachi in 1998; now it is grown about 9-9.5 lacs as reported from District Town Office. Most of the people are of low socioeconomic background. Majority of them belong to labor and worker class doing jobs in the factories and companies having monthly income less than or equal to 20,000 rupees. Most of the people are of low educational status. So our purpose of study is to investigate the awareness and perception of the community about pesticides, their use and precautions taken to avoid health risk during controlling of domestic insect pests. 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS Fig.1 Map of the study area, Baldia Town Karachi. A questionnaire was designed for survey programme about demographic characteristics, types of pest control 3 RESULTS methods used by the people, awareness of general knowledge about household pesticides, pesticide use pattern Socioeconomic background: The reported average pesticide application methods, storage pattern and health family members per household were 5. The age range was hazards of pesticides [13], [24](Chitra et. al., 2013; Anwar et. 15-30 years (54%), 30-45 years (30%) and 45 or above (14%). al., 2015). The educational background range of the participants varied from illiterate (16%), primary educated (11%), middle (12%), Interview from any one adult member of the households secondary (14%), intermediate (17%), graduate (19%) and of these above mentioned areas of Baldia Town, Karachi was post graduate level (10%). A large number of study done. The participants were interviewed by going at their participants (59%) were from worker and labor class doing homes located in the described areas. The survey was jobs in the companies and factories. A large number of conducted from September to December in 2015. The participants (73%) were of low monthly income. Eight majority of the participants were males. They were of percent of the participants reported problems experienced different age groups and different educational background, from pest organisms such as osquitoes and housefly had different occupations and with different monthly responsible for transmitting many diseases and producing income. Questions about their smoking habit, observed IJSERrashes and redness on skin and by keeping birds as pet and household domestic insect pests and if they had experienced allergy from hens and malaria from mosquito and food any problem from pests and collected information about different pesticide products used in the households for poisonings were reported as problems in a very few cases . domestic purposes and asked for adopting any non- chemical method for treating pests. Data was collected about 3.1 Awareness about pesticides: In the present study history of pesticide use, their knowledge and awareness the general public of Baldia Town has some awareness about about pesticides, their effects, their source of information pesticides as we found 80% people thinking that pesticides about pesticide, their behavior and thinking about pesticides effected health. Sixtytwo percent people knew that the regarding their health risks. Questions were also asked about mosquito coil contained poisonous pesticide. Fiftysix city government activity for pest control in the areas. Data participants knew about pesticides sprayed on a large scale was collected about their knowledge and link with on crops had health risks (Table 2). A large number of agricultural activities. Information was collected about participants (51%) did not know the recommended dose of location of pesticide use, taking any precautionary measures, pesticides. Four percent participant’s smoked during frequency of use and their application methods. Data was pesticide application (Table 5). Eleven percent participants collected about storage locations of pesticides, related risks, reported eating or drinking during pesticide application. storage time period and disposal methods. Questions were More than half of the participants did not know the health asked about adverse health effects and toxicity symptoms effects of pesticides. Almost all the study participants knew experienced by the participants and checked their risk the purpose of pesticides. Fifteen percent participants perception about pesticide poisoning. If any poisoning thought pesticide was not harmful for human being, which incidence from pesticides occurred in the area and adopted showed they had no awareness about health effects of remedies reported by the participants were also asked and checked, their perception on pesticides, if ever discussed IJSER © 2017
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