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Correction: The role of alcohol use in pesticide suicide and self-harm: a sco** review

Lisa Schölin, K. S. Kylie Lee, Leslie London… in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2024)

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The role of alcohol use in pesticide suicide and self-harm: a sco** review

Suicide and self-harm by pesticide self-poisoning is common in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Alcohol is an important risk factor for self-harm; however, little is known about its role in pesticide ...

Lisa Schölin, K. S. Kylie Lee, Leslie London… in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2024)

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Emerging pesticides responsible for suicide in rural Sri Lanka following the 2008–2014 pesticide bans

Sri Lanka has reduced its overall suicide rate by 70% over the last two decades through means restriction, through a series of government regulations and bans removing highly hazardous pesticides from agricult...

Manjula Weerasinghe, Melissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen… in BMC Public Health (2020)

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Are left-behind families of migrant workers at increased risk of attempted suicide? – a cohort study of 178,000+ individuals in Sri Lanka

There are an estimated 258 million international migrants worldwide. In Asia low-skilled workers often emigrate on a temporary basis (2–3 years) without their families. There is significant concern over the me...

Duleeka Knipe, Helen Lambert, Melissa Pearson, Michael Eddleston… in BMC Psychiatry (2019)

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Vendor-based restrictions on pesticide sales to prevent pesticide self-poisoning - a pilot study

In South Asia, up to 20% of people ingesting pesticides for self-poisoning purchase the pesticide from a shop with the sole intention of self-harm. Individuals who are intoxicated with alcohol and/or non-farme...

Manjula Weerasinghe, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston… in BMC Public Health (2018)

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Suicide in Sri Lanka 1975–2012: age, period and cohort analysis of police and hospital data

Sri Lanka has experienced major changes in its suicide rates since the 1970s, and in 1995 it had one of the highest rates in the world. Subsequent reductions in Sri Lanka’s suicide rates have been attributed t...

Duleeka W Knipe, Chris Metcalfe, Ravindra Fernando, Melissa Pearson… in BMC Public Health (2014)

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Challenges and opportunities of a paperless baseline survey in Sri Lanka

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have been shown to reduce costs associated with survey implementation and digitisation, and to improve data quality when compared to traditional paper based data collection. ...

Duleeka W Knipe, Melissa Pearson, Rasmus Borgstrøm, Ravi Pieris… in BMC Research Notes (2014)

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A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: study protocol

The WHO recognises pesticide poisoning to be the single most important means of suicide globally. Pesticide self-poisoning is a major public health and clinical problem in rural Asia, where it has led to case ...

Melissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen, David Gunnell, Andrew H Dawson… in BMC Public Health (2011)

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Prospective policy analysis: how an epistemic community informed policymaking on intentional self poisoning in Sri Lanka

Policy analysis is often retrospective and not well suited to hel** policy makers decide what to do; in contrast prospective policy analysis seeks to assist in formulating responses to challenging public pol...

Melissa Pearson, Anthony B Zwi, Nicholas A Buckley in Health Research Policy and Systems (2010)