Skip to main content

Table 5 The correlation between participants’ gender and the practice of OHS (N = 104)

From: Pesticide usage and occupational hazards among farmers working in small-scale tomato farms in Cameroon

Characteristics

Gender

Total

N (%)

X2 (p value)

Male

N (%)

Female

N (%)

Use of safety boots

 Yes

81(89.0)

10(11.0)

91(100.0)

3.820(0.044)*

 No

9(69.2)

4(30.8)

13(100.0)

Use of safety glasses

 Yes

30(90.9)

3(9.1)

33(100.0)

0.792(0.373)

 No

60(84.5)

11(15.5)

71(100.0)

Use of gloves

 Yes

44(86.3)

7(13.7)

51(100.0)

0.006(0.938)

 No

46(86.8)

7(13.2)

53(100.0)

Use of nose mask

 Yes

55(79.7)

14(20.3)

69(100.0)

8.206(0.004)**

 No

35(100)

0(0.0)

35(100.0)

Use of raincoats

 Yes

33(89.2)

4(10.8)

37(100.0)

0.346(0.556)

 No

57(85.1)

10(14.9)

67(100.0)

Clean up the body immediately after the use of pesticides

 Yes

1(100.0)

0(0.0)

1(100.0)

0.157(0.692)

 No

89(86.4)

14(13.6)

103(100.0)

  1. * = 0.01
  2. ** = 0.001