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Table 2.

Summary of depressive symptoms used as outcome measurements

Reference	Results obtained	Impact of outcomes
Beseler et al¹⁰	Depression due to doctor’s diagnosis was not significantly related to low (OR 1.09; 95% CI 0.91 to 1.31) cumulative exposure	−
Levin et al²³	Anxiety score of the pesticide applicators was significantly higher (p<0.05) than that of the farmers. However, there was no significant difference in measures of depression	++
London et al²⁴	Dizziness, sleepiness and headache had a significantly higher overall neurological symptom score (p<0.05)	++
Misra et al²⁶	Common symptoms were headache (59%), giddiness (50%), ocular symptoms (27%) and paraesthesia (18%), and no neurological change was seen	−
Ohayo-Mitoko et al²⁷	A significant change in symptom prevalence was found for the respiratory (2.48% CI (0.78% to 5.38%) and central nervous system (2.56% CI (0.99% to 6.62%), but in terms of skin symptoms and eye symptoms, there was no statistically significant change	++

++, statistically significant (p<0.05); OR, Odds ratio; −, not statistically significant.