Table 2.

Barriers and facilitating factors identified by vendors for interventions involving vendors to prevent self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka

Barriers	Facilitators
No community pressure to change sales practices	Vendors reported willingness to participate in training initiatives about self-poisoning
No training or support to identify or respond to customers attempting to access pesticides for self-harm	Willingness of some vendors to support prevention, for example, intensive questioning, offering support to distressed customers
Difficult to identify individuals for self-poisoning where there is no visible distress	Vendors capable of identifying vulnerable customers who may go on to self-harm
Difficult for large-scale vendors who may not be connected to the community to identify individuals risk