Risk Factors for Acute Unintentional Poisoning among Children Aged 1–5 Years in the Rural Community of Sri Lanka

Table 1

Exposures of interest: the twenty-three proposed risk factors for acute poisoning among children aged 1–5 years.

Risk factor category	Proposed risk factor
(1) Environmental risk factors	(1) Unsafe storage of medicines
	(2) Unsafe storage of household chemicals
	(3) Unsafe use/storage of agrochemicals
	(4) Inadequate space in the house
	(5) Inadequate supervision of the child
	(6) Poisonous plants in the
	neighborhood/home garden
(2) Psychosocial risk factors	(1) Psychological problems in parents
	(2) Lack of social support
	(3) Lack of schooling/education to the child
(3) Family related factors	(1) Father using alcohol or illicit drugs
	(2) Problems with the siblings
	(3) Incorrect parenting styles
	(4) Mother employed outside the country
	(5) Economic problems in the family
	(6) Mother working during the daytime
	(7) Poor education in the mother (<grade 8)
	(8) Young mother (<21 years old)
	(9) Marital problems among parents
	(10) Lack of family support
	(11) Single parent status
(4) Personal characteristics	(1) Developmental problems in the child
	(2) Personality abnormalities in the child
	(3) Behavioral abnormalities in the child