Behavior change through educational interventions and text messaging to improve personal protective equipment use during pesticide handling among smallholder farmers in Uganda: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Key Points

• Improved personal protective equipment use among farmers underscores the effectiveness of educational interventions with text messages.
• Farmers in Uganda showed a notable increase in protective equipment compliance, reaching 50% over the intervention period.
• Cluster randomized controlled trial assessed the impact of text messaging and education on behavior change regarding pesticide handling.
• Findings may enable safer farming practices, highlighting the importance of effective communication strategies.