Farmers' Intentions to Implement Foot and Mouth Disease Control Measures in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: The objectives of this study were to explore farmers' intentions to implement foot and mouth disease (FMD) control in Ethiopia, and to identify perceptions about the disease and its control measures that influence these intentions using the Health Belief Model (HBM) framework. Data were collected using questionnaires from 293 farmers in three different production systems. The influence of perceptions on the intentions to implement control measures were analyzed using binary logistic regression. The effect of socio-demographic and husbandry variables on perceptions that were found to significantly influence the intentions were analyzed using ordinal logistic regression. Almost all farmers (99%) intended to implement FMD vaccination free of charge. The majority of farmers in the pastoral (94

SUBMITTER: Jemberu WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4572705 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature