Laboratory for Animal Health in Normandy, Physiopathology and Epidemiology of Equine Diseases Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), F14430 Goustranville, France; University of Lyon-Epidemiology and Support to Surveillance Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), 31, avenue Tony Garnier, F69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France; Normandie Université, UNICAEN, Centre F. Baclesse, UR ABTE EA 4651, 14000 Caen, France.
Laboratory for Animal Health in Normandy, Physiopathology and Epidemiology of Equine Diseases Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), F14430 Goustranville, France.
Res Vet Sci. 2021 Jan;134:96-101. doi: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2020.12.001. Epub 2020 Dec 3.
Accurate demographic knowledge of the equine population is needed to assess and model equine health events. France is one of the few European countries with an operational centralized database (SIRE) recording individual data on all declared equines living in France and on their owners and keepers. Our study aimed to assess SIRE database quality concerning the updating of information by equine owners and keepers with a view to its improvement and use in surveillance and research. Two online surveys were conducted with the participation of 6244 registered keepers and 13,869 owners. Results showed some inconsistencies between SIRE records and survey responses. The inconsistency rate for equines whose castration and death were not registered in the database was 28.7% and 5.9% respectively. Concerning owners, 11% of respondents did not own the reference equine selected considered by the survey, 33% had changed address without updating it in the SIRE. Concerning premises hosting equines, the keeper survey's inconsistency rate was 7.3%, of which 57 respondents had closed and 32 had opened premises without reporting it. Comparatively, the owner survey's inconsistency rate was 40.7% including respondents who owned and hosted an equine without reporting these equine premises, and owners who did not keep any equines on their premises. In conclusion, the SIRE database proved to be a valuable and reliable source for epidemiological research as long as some bias is taken into account. On the contrary, its use in surveillance is currently limited due some shortcomings in updating and/or reporting by owners and keepers.
准确的马种群人口统计学知识对于评估和模拟马健康事件至关重要。法国是少数几个拥有运营性集中式数据库（SIRE）的欧洲国家之一，该数据库记录了生活在法国的所有申报马匹及其所有者和饲养者的个人数据。我们的研究旨在评估 SIRE 数据库在信息更新方面的质量，以期改进数据库并将其用于监测和研究。我们进行了两次在线调查，共有 6244 名注册饲养者和 13869 名所有者参与。结果显示，SIRE 记录与调查答复之间存在一些不一致。数据库中未登记去势和死亡的马匹的不一致率分别为 28.7%和 5.9%。关于所有者，11%的受访者没有拥有调查中选择的参考马匹，33%的人已更改地址，但未在 SIRE 中更新。关于饲养马匹的场所，饲养者调查的不一致率为 7.3%，其中 57 名受访者已关闭场所，32 名受访者已开设新场所，但未报告。相比之下，所有者调查的不一致率为 40.7%，包括拥有和饲养马匹但未报告这些马匹场所的受访者，以及未在其场所饲养任何马匹的所有者。总之，只要考虑到一些偏差，SIRE 数据库就是流行病学研究的有价值且可靠的来源。相反，由于所有者和饲养者在更新和/或报告方面存在一些缺陷，其在监测中的使用目前受到限制。
