Table 6 Lifetime prevalence of consultation with general practitioner (GP) because of neuropsychiatric symptoms according to earlier work with pesticides.
| Reason for consulting GP | Never worked with pesticides | Ever worked with sheep dip | Ever worked with insecticides, never with sheep dip | Ever worked with other pesticides, never with sheep dip or insecticides | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Prevalence (%)* | n | Prevalence (%)* | n | Prevalence (%)* | n | Prevalence (%)* | |
| Change in personality (eg, a tendency to depression or irritability) | 501 | 8.2 | 168 | 9.0 | 60 | 7.2 | 84 | 8.4 |
| Difficulty speaking (eg, in finding the right words or getting words out) | 128 | 2.0 | 40 | 2.3 | 17 | 2.1 | 19 | 1.9 |
| Difficulty with handwriting | 98 | 1.5 | 32 | 1.9 | 10 | 1.3 | 14 | 1.5 |
| Thoughts about self‐harm or committing suicide | 149 | 2.5 | 55 | 2.9 | 28 | 3.3 | 37 | 3.9 |
*Prevalence rates directly standardised to the age distribution of the total study sample.