Willingness to Comply With Biosecurity in Livestock Facilities: Evidence From Experimental Simulations.

ABSTRACT: Disease in U.S. animal livestock industries annually costs over a billion dollars. Adoption and compliance with biosecurity practices is necessary to successfully reduce the risk of disease introduction or spread. Yet, a variety of human behaviors, such as the urge to minimize time costs, may induce non-compliance with biosecurity practices. Utilizing a "serious gaming" approach, we examine how information about infection risk impacts compliance with biosecurity practices. We sought to understand how simulated environments affected compliance behavior with treatments that varied using three factors: (1) the risk of acquiring an infection, (2) the delivery method of the infection risk message (numerical, linguistic and graphical), and (3) the certainty of the infection risk information. Her

SUBMITTER: Merrill SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558082 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature