Dairy farmers' decision-making to implement biosecurity measures: A study of psychosocial factors.

摘要: Biosecurity measures are a set of management procedures that prevent the risk introducing and spreading infectious diseases to farm, although these rarely implemented in dairy farms. There some studies have identified decision implement biosecurity can be influenced by several psychosocial factors (attitudes behaviours). Thus, objective this study was examine (and their interactions) influencing implementation farms Spain, through views farmers veterinarians from Catalonia (northeast Spain) Galicia (northwest Spain). Face-to-face in-depth interviews were performed with 16 (nine seven Galicia) (eight eight Galicia). Grounded theory analysis on transcripts, following subtopics of: information sources, individual farmer, social dynamics, official veterinary services other factors. The importance as source information, including communication skills, experiences farmers, traditions availability time space farmer's decisions making. Further, it suggests need deepen knowledge farm workers obligatory measures. This research represents starting point develop future strategies improve