Attitudes of consumers and live-poultry workers to central slaughtering in controlling H7N9: a cross-sectional study ...

Abstract Background Guangdong Province in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China is among the areas in the country with the highest rates of avian flu cases. In order to control the outbreak of human-infected H7N9 cases, Guangdong launched a new policy on the central slaughtering of live poultry i...

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Main Authors: Lin, Xiao, Zhang, Dingmei, Wang, Xinwei, Huang, Yun, Du, Zhicheng, Zou, Yaming, Lu, Jiahai, Hao, Yuantao
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: figshare 2017
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3789475.v1
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Summary:Abstract Background Guangdong Province in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China is among the areas in the country with the highest rates of avian flu cases. In order to control the outbreak of human-infected H7N9 cases, Guangdong launched a new policy on the central slaughtering of live poultry in 2015. This study aims to evaluate attitudes of consumers and live-poultry workers toward the policy. The live-poultry workers consisted of two sub-groups: live-poultry traders and poultry farm workers. Methods Consumers and live-poultry workers from Guangdong were enrolled by stratified multi-stage random sampling. Online and field surveys were conducted to investigate participantsâ attitudes on policy implementation. Questionnaires were developed to quantify participant demographics, to collect information about attitudes toward the policy, and to identify influential factors of policy acceptability. Proportional odds logistics regression was used in the univariate and multivariate analyses. A total of 1449 ...