Plant Poisoning among Children in Rural Sri Lanka

Table 5

Analysis of proposed risk factors in case-control study.

Proposed risk factor	Cases	Controls	Chi square value	value
(1) Poisonous plants in home garden	54	6	71.31	<0.001
(2) Inadequate supervision of the child	49	13	39.96	<0.001
(3) Past history of poisoning	24	2	23.26	<0.001
(4) Lack of family support	33	12	14.98	<0.001
(5) Mother working during the daytime	17	15	0.16	0.68
(6) Lack of schooling/education in mother	2	1	0.34	0.55
(7) Young mother (<19 years)	7	9	0.28	0.59
(8) Primary level education in mother	10	7	0.60	0.43
(9) Parents from farming community	22	19	0.32	0.57
(10) Economic problems	21	20	0.03	0.85