Barriers and facilitating factors identified by vendors for interventions involving vendors to prevent self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka
| Barriers | Facilitators |
|---|---|
| No community pressure to change sales practices | Vendors reported willingness to participate in training initiatives about self-poisoning |
| No training or support to identify or respond to customers attempting to access pesticides for self-harm | Willingness of some vendors to support prevention, for example, intensive questioning, offering support to distressed customers |
| Difficult to identify individuals for self-poisoning where there is no visible distress | Vendors capable of identifying vulnerable customers who may go on to self-harm |
| Difficult for large-scale vendors who may not be connected to the community to identify individuals risk |