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Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea
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Prosser, N. S., Green, M. J., Ferguson, E., Tildesley, Michael J., Hill, Edward M., Keeling, Matthew James and Kaler, J. (2022) Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea. Journal of Dairy Science, 105 (4). pp. 3559-3573. doi:10.3168/jds.2021-21386 ISSN 0022-0302.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21386
Abstract
Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is endemic in the United Kingdom and causes major economic losses. Control is largely voluntary for individual farmers and is likely to be influenced by psychosocial factors, such as altruism, trust, and psychological proximity (feeling close) to relevant “others,” such as farmers, veterinarians, the government, and their cows. These psychosocial factors (factors with both psychological and social aspects) are important determinants of how people make decisions related to their own health, many of which have not been studied in the context of infectious disease control by farmers. Farmer psychosocial profiles were investigated using multiple validated measures in an observational survey of 475 UK cattle farmers using the capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior (COM-B) framework. Farmers were clustered by their BVD control practices using latent class analysis. Farmers were split into 5 BVD control behavior classes, which were tested for associations with the psychosocial and COM-B factors using multinomial logistic regression, with doing nothing as the baseline class. Farmers who were controlling disease both for themselves and others were more likely to do something to control BVD (e.g., test, vaccinate). Farmers who did not trust other farmers, had high psychological capability (knowledge and understanding of how to control disease), and had high physical opportunity (time and money to control disease) were more likely to have a closed, separate herd and test. Farmers who did not trust other farmers were also more likely to undertake many prevention strategies with an open herd. Farmers with high automatic motivation (habits and emotions) and reflective motivation (decisions and goals) were more likely to vaccinate and test, alone or in combination with other controls. Farmers with high psychological proximity (feeling of closeness) to their veterinarian were more likely to undertake many prevention strategies in an open herd. Farmers with high psychological proximity to dairy farmers and low psychological proximity to beef farmers were more likely to keep their herd closed and separate and test or vaccinate and test. Farmers who had a lot of trust in other farmers and invested in them, rather than keeping everything for themselves, were more likely to be careful introducing new stock and test. In conclusion, farmer psychosocial factors were associated with strategies for BVD control in UK cattle farmers. Psychological proximity to veterinarians was a novel factor associated with proactive BVD control and was more important than the more extensively investigated trust. These findings highlight the importance of a close veterinarian-farmer relationship and are important for promoting effective BVD control by farmers, which has implications for successful nationwide BVD control and eradication schemes.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SF Animal culture | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bovine viral diarrhea, Bovine viral diarrhea virus -- Control, Farmers -- Attitudes, Farmers -- Psychology, Ranchers -- Psychology | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Dairy Science | |||||||||
| Publisher: | American Dairy Science Association | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-0302 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2022 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 105 | |||||||||
| Number: | 4 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 3559-3573 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3168/jds.2021-21386 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2022 American Dairy Science Association®. | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 January 2022 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 January 2022 | |||||||||
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