Data on pesticide exposure and mental health screening of family farmers in Brazil

Rafael Junqueira Buralli; Helena Ribeiro; Renata Spolti Leão; Rejane Correa Marques; Jean Remy Daveé Guimarães

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103993

Data on pesticide exposure and mental health screening of family farmers in Brazil

Data Brief. 2019 May 24:25:103993. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103993. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Rafael Junqueira Buralli¹, Helena Ribeiro¹, Renata Spolti Leão², Rejane Correa Marques³, Jean Remy Daveé Guimarães⁴

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Saúde Ambiental, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Centro de Tecnologia em Nanomateriais e Grafeno - CTNANO/UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Campus Macaé, Macaé, Brazil.
⁴ Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

This dataset is part of a risk assessment project that evaluated the human health effects of pesticide exposure in São José de Ubá, State of Rio de Janeiro. This region is one of the greatest tomato producers in Brazil, and pest control is commonly based on the use of pesticides. We interviewed 78 smallholder family farmers about sociodemographic characteristics, pesticide use and exposure, assessed blood cholinesterase as biomarkers (n = 70), and screened all participants for probable common mental disorders through the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20).

Keywords: Agricultural worker's diseases; Farmers; Mental health; Occupational exposure; Pesticides.