Table 1.
Perceptions on general biosecurity, control interventions, attitudes on pig business and relation with neighbours
| Statement | Perceptiona | |
|---|---|---|
| Second occasionb | Third Occasionb | |
| General biosecurity | ||
| I think it is possible to protect my pigs from getting ASFc by improving farm bio security | 4/3.80 (4; 4) | 4/3.79 (4; 4) |
| ASF can not be prevented | 2/2.34 (2; 3) | 2/2.15 (2; 2)** |
| I would like to invest in farm biosecurity if I received advice on what to do | 4/3.79 (4; 4) | 4/3.80 (4; 4) |
| Improved farm biosecurity improves pig health and pig growth | 4/3.99 (4; 4) | 4/4.09 (4; 4)** |
| Buying live pigs is a risk behaviour for contracting ASF | 4/3.87 4; 4) | 4/4.10 4; 4)*** |
| Frequent selling and buying of pigs is necessary for successful pig farming | 2/2.57 (2; 4) | 3/2.84 (2; 4)** |
| Eating pork from pigs that have died from ASF is safe for human health | 2/2.65 (2; 3) | 2/2.65 (2; 3) |
| I don’t want to eat or buy pork from pigs that have died from ASF | 4/4.26 (4; 5) | 5/4.43** (4; 5) |
| Cooking kills the ASF virus | 2/2.47 (2; 3) | 2/2.63 (2; 4) |
| If pork prices are lower in the neighbouring village due to them having an outbreak of ASF, I will buy my pork there | 2/1.81 (1; 2) | 2/1.62 (1; 2)*** |
| Control interventions | ||
| If I would get a fair price I would be willing to sell all my healthy pigs when an ASF outbreak occurred in the area | 2/2.56 (2; 3) | 2/2.42 (2; 3)* |
| I would be happy to buy pork products from a slaughterhouse that receive pigs that have been in contact with pigs dying from ASF | 2/1.74 (1; 2) | 2/1.67 (1; 2) |
| I can choose where to/to whom I sell my pigs | 4/3.41 (3; 4) | 3/2.83 (2, 4)*** |
| I could adopt my pig farming in order to have pigs ready for sale at specific times of the year | 3/2.89 (2; 4) | 2/2.63 (2; 3)*** |
| It is possible for me to tell visitors not to enter in the pig-house with their own boots | 4/3.60 (3; 4) | 4/3.77 (3; 5)* |
| Attitude | ||
| I have lost confidence in pig production | 1/1.51 (1; 2) | 1/1.35 (1; 1)*** |
| I feel more optimistic about the pig enterprise | 5/4.38 (4; 5) | 5/4.48 (4; 5)* |
| Other | ||
| There has been an increase in disputes, disagreements or jealousy among my neighbours | 1/1.79 (1; 2) | 1/1.73 (1; 2) |
* = p ≤ 0.1; ** = p < 0.05; *** = p < 0.01
aPerceptions were measured as agreements with given statements according to a Likert-scale with five levels: strongly agree = 5; agree = 4; neither agree nor disagree = 3; Disagree = 2; Strongly disagree = 1. Changes in perception between the two interview occasions were evaluated using the paired Wilcoxon signed-rank Test
bMedian/mean (1st; 3rd quarantile)
cASF African swine fever