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Table 1 SACTRC and Oxford Centre for Suicide Research (OSCR) safe storage pilot studies in Sri Lanka

From: A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: study protocol

Study

Start

Containers

Households*

Follow-up

A. SACTRC [23]

May 2005

• Wood in-house container

• Metal in-house container

116

56

24 months

B. OCSR [24]

March 2006

• Metal in-house container

362

18 months

C. SACTRC [25]

May 2006

• Wood in-house container

• Concrete in-field container

53

103

7 months

  1. *Households that received particular containers and were using pesticides at 7 months