Between-country differences in the psychosocial profiles of British cattle farmers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychosocial factors are important for the uptake of livestock disease control measures by farmers and can differ by region, which would have implications for disease control nationally.

Methods

We investigated altruism, trust, psychological proximity and the COM-B behaviour change framework in a survey of 475 British cattle farmers in 2020. Using regression models, we studied associations between the country farmers lived in and psychosocial and behaviour change factors.

Results

There were many between-country differences in farmers' psychosocial and COM-B profiles. Accounting for multiple tests, Scottish cattle farmers reported higher trust in governmental judgements for disease control and greater social opportunity to control disease than English cattle

SUBMITTER: Prosser NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12904086 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature