Turkson Paa Kobina, Okike Iheanacho
Department of Animal ScienceSchool of AgricultureUniversity of Cape CoastCape CoastGhana.
Present address: School of Veterinary MedicineCollege of Basic and Applied SciencesUniversity of GhanaLegonAccraGhana.
Vet Med Sci. 2016 Jan 8;2(1):23-35. doi: 10.1002/vms3.15. eCollection 2016 Feb.
The animal health services-seeking behaviour of animal owners related to prevention and control of animal diseases may influence their decisions as to whether or not to use services provided by the public or private sectors. The specific objective of this paper was to assess the practices, capacities and incentives of actors involved in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) control to provide information for prevention and control in Ghana. Questionnaires were designed based on specific practices, incentives and capacities associated with each mitigation measure that was being assessed. Two peacetime preventive mitigation measures (biosecurity and reporting) and two outbreak containment measures (culling with compensation and movement control) were selected for evaluation. Supply chain actors were characterised based on baseline information. Tables were generated showing proportions of respondents in the various response categories in Likert-scale type itemised questionnaire. Mean scores (and their standard deviations) for the various actors with regard to mitigation measures were calculated. Pair-wise comparisons were done using -ratio statistic and significance of differences were determined at a Bonferroni adjusted -value of 0.0024. The study found statistically significant differences between certain actors for practices (biosecurity, reporting, culling and compensation and movement controls), incentives (reporting and movement control) and capacities (reporting and movement control). The findings provide lessons to help improve education and messages on HPAI and to help provide technical assistance targeted at specific actors to prevent and control future HPAI H5N1 outbreaks in Ghana.
动物主人在动物疾病预防和控制方面寻求动物健康服务的行为可能会影响他们关于是否使用公共或私营部门提供的服务的决定。本文的具体目标是评估参与高致病性禽流感（HPAI）防控的行为主体的做法、能力和激励措施，以便为加纳的防控工作提供信息。问卷是根据与每项正在评估的缓解措施相关的具体做法、激励措施和能力设计的。选择了两项和平时期的预防缓解措施（生物安全和报告）以及两项疫情控制措施（有补偿的扑杀和移动控制）进行评估。根据基线信息对供应链行为主体进行了特征描述。生成的表格显示了李克特量表式分项问卷中不同回答类别的受访者比例。计算了不同行为主体在缓解措施方面的平均得分（及其标准差）。使用F比率统计量进行两两比较，并在邦费罗尼校正后的P值为0.0024时确定差异的显著性。研究发现，某些行为主体在做法（生物安全、报告、扑杀与补偿以及移动控制）、激励措施（报告和移动控制）和能力（报告和移动控制）方面存在统计学上的显著差异。这些研究结果为帮助改进关于高致病性禽流感的教育和信息以及为针对特定行为主体提供技术援助以预防和控制加纳未来的高致病性禽流感H5N1疫情提供了经验教训。
