Australian National University, Australia.
University of Melbourne, Australia.
Prev Vet Med. 2023 Mar;212:105855. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.105855. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
This study examines the influence of trust on farmers' intentions to report suspected disease on their farm. Disease reporting is essential to detect and respond to disease early, thereby minimising its impacts on agriculture businesses, the economy, and the environment. Trust has been identified as an important factor influencing farmers' disease reporting intentions but has not been quantitatively investigated. We use an established model of trust-the Integrative Model of Organisational Trust (IMOT)-to conceptualise how trust influences disease reporting intentions. We also examine how social identity is related to trust and disease reporting. Australian plant, livestock, and aquaculture farmers (N = 41) completed an online questionnaire developed from existing validated measures and we also developed two new measures for disease reporting intentions. Trust in government positively and significantly predicted farmer intentions to report suspected disease outbreaks, explaining 26% of the variance. For every one-unit increase in trust, disease reporting intentions increased by over four times. Results also support the role of shared values and group membership as aspects of social identity that influence trust and disease reporting. These results highlight the importance of government decision-makers developing and maintaining trust with farmers to support early detection and response to emergency disease outbreaks.
本研究考察了信任对农民报告其农场疑似疾病意向的影响。疾病报告对于早期发现和应对疾病至关重要，从而最大限度地减少其对农业企业、经济和环境的影响。信任已被确定为影响农民疾病报告意向的一个重要因素，但尚未进行定量研究。我们使用已建立的信任模型——组织信任综合模型（IMOT）——来概念化信任如何影响疾病报告意向。我们还研究了社会认同与信任和疾病报告之间的关系。澳大利亚的植物、牲畜和水产养殖农民（N=41）完成了一份在线问卷，该问卷是根据现有经过验证的衡量标准制定的，我们还为疾病报告意向开发了两个新的衡量标准。对政府的信任与农民报告疑似疾病爆发的意向呈正相关且显著，解释了 26%的方差。信任每增加一个单位，疾病报告意向就会增加四倍多。研究结果还支持共同价值观和群体成员身份作为社会认同的方面，影响信任和疾病报告的观点。这些结果强调了政府决策者与农民建立和维护信任以支持对紧急疾病爆发的早期检测和应对的重要性。
