Titel (eng)

Understanding the uptake of diagnostics for sustainable gastrointestinal nematode control by European dairy cattle farmers: a multi-country cross-sectional study

Autor*in

Fiona Vande Velde   Ghent University / Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Edwin Claerebout   Ghent University

David J. Bartley   The Moredun Research Institute

Johannes Charlier   Kreavet

Violeta-Elena Simion   Spiru Haret University

Teresa L. Mateus

Oliva M D Martins   Instituto Politécnico de Bragança

Gabriela Knubben-Schweizer   Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Katharina May   Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen

Christina Strube   University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Martin Gehringer   LKV Lower Austria

Barbara Hinney   University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

Antonio Bosco   University of Naples Federico II

Laura Rinaldi   University of Naples Federico II

Claire J Phythian   Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Lisbeth Hektoen   Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Verlag

EDP Sciences SA

Beschreibung (eng)

To mitigate emerging anthelmintic resistance (AR) in cattle, sustainable gastrointestinal nematode control strategies should be adopted. A multi-centre study was set up to understand the factors affecting European dairy cattle farmers' adoption of diagnostics and to gauge for differences between regions. The data were collected through a multi-lingual survey by participating countries of the European Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) action COMbatting Anthelmintic Resistance in ruminants (COMBAR). Four countries provided sufficient data to be included in the data analysis: Norway, Italy, Germany and Austria. Three models were estimated and validated through structural equation modelling. Norway, along with Germany and Austria (pooled dataset) showed similar trends that align with previous studies. AR risk perception had no influence on the adoption intention of diagnostics, a positive influence was found for attitude towards diagnostics and subjective norms (i.e., perceived opinion of others), and a negative influence of attitudes towards anthelminthics. Additionally, routine (i.e., perception of the current treatment) had an indirect effect on adoption intention through attitudes. Italy's data deviated from these findings, presenting a positive effect of the perceived severity of AR, and perceived behavioural control (i.e., perceived ability to perform a specific behaviour) on adoption intention of diagnostics. Finally, Norway's data set allowed for inclusion of a measurement of current behaviour in the model, identifying a direct positive effect of the perceived actual behaviour of other farmers on their own behaviour.

Sprache des Objekts

Englisch

Datum

2023

Rechte

Dieses Werk bzw. dieser Inhalt steht unter einer
CC BY 4.0 - Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz.

CC BY 4.0 International

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Klassifikation

Johnes-Disease Control; Back-Translation; Attitudes; Behavior; Determinants; Adoption; Sheep; Infections; Invariance; Voluntary

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