Emotive Themes from Tennessee Cattle Producers Regarding Responsible Antibiotic Use.

ABSTRACT: To improve judicious antimicrobial use (AMU) in food animals in the United States, all feed additives that were medically important antimicrobials were moved from over the counter to Veterinary Feed Directive in 2017. This action required a change in behavior of producers' AMU practices. Because emotions are important aspects of behavior, several behavioral interventions have targeted people's emotions as means of effecting change. Hence, understanding and incorporating the emotional experiences of producers towards current AMU practices can be a starting point to making future behavioral changes that could reduce the emergence of antimicrobial resistance challenge. Between June 2017 and March 2018, seven focus group meetings of Tennessee (TN) beef and dairy cattle producers were conducted

SUBMITTER: Okafor CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9405180 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature