Methods used to collect farmers' attitudes, motivators and barriers toward cattle production: a rapid review

摘要

On-farm disease control is extremely important as the consequences of a disease breakdown can affect not only animals on a particular farm, but other farms and industries within the farming sector. Current work at the University of Nottingham is investigating the motivators and barriers to implementing disease control via biosecurity and vaccination on UK dairy farms. Farmers' motivators and barriers are important to understand as part of the decision making behind behaviour (DEFRA, 2008). There havebeen a number of methods used to collect and analyse motivators and barriers to implementing disease control and little, if any, published research has attempted to summarise the work in this area. The aim of this study was to review and appraise previous research investigating opinions, motivators and barriers of farmers relating to cattle farming. A second aim was to identify and appraise the study methods that have been used previously to elicit this type of information to inform future research inthis area.