Smallholders’ perceptions on biosecurity and disease control in relation to African swine fever in an endemically infected area in Northern Uganda

Table 3 Associations between perceptions and outbreaks of ASF

Statement^a	Perception^b
Statement^a	Second occasion^c	Third Occasion^c
General biosecurity
I think it is possible to protect my pigs from getting ASF^d by improving farm bio security
ASF outbreak second interview occasion	4/3.40^**	4/3.73
No ASF outbreak second interview occasion	4/3.83	4/3.79
ASF outbreak third interview occasion	NA	4/3.43^**
No ASF outbreak third interview occasion	NA	4/3.84
Control interventions
I would be happy to buy pork products from a slaughterhouse that receive pigs that have been in contact with pigs dying from ASF
ASF outbreak second interview occasion	2/2.13^*	2/1.73
No ASF outbreak second interview occasion	2/1.71	2/1.66
ASF outbreak third interview occasion	NA	2/2.00^*
No ASF outbreak third interview occasion	NA	2, 1.62

^* = p = 0.1; ^** = p < 0.05
^aAssociations consistent over the two interview occasions are shown
^bPerceptions 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. Associations were evaluated using the Kruskal Wallis test
^cMedian/mean
^dASF African swine fever

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