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Children are future consumers; they will impact future animal welfare standards. This pilot study evaluated a nonhuman animal welfare education program, building a farm animal attitude questionnaire for 8-to 10-year-old children. The educational material focused on the behaviors and needs of cows, chickens, and pigs. Knowledge acquisition and attitude change were measured before and after the intervention for children in the intervention group and at a 2-week interval for children in the control group. Reliability of the attitude scale was measured by correlating the answers from the control group at two different time points. Eleven items were significantly correlated at the time points, indicating that those questions were reliably testing children's views on these items. The educational intervention was successful in increasing children's knowledge of farm animals and resulted in some changes in attitudes. The type of favorite animal reported shifted to more farm animals after the intervention.
| Idioma original | English |
|---|---|
| Páginas (desde-hasta) | 363-378 |
| Número de páginas | 16 |
| Publicación | Society and Animals |
| Volumen | 23 |
| N.º | 4 |
| DOI | |
| Estado | Published - 1 ene 2015 |
| Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
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- veterinary(all)
- Sociology and Political Science
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Farm Animal Welfare and Children : A Preliminary Study Building an Attitude Scale and Evaluating an Intervention. / Orihuela, Agustin; Aguirre, Virginio; Lakestani, Nelly.
En: Society and Animals, Vol. 23, N.º 4, 01.01.2015, p. 363-378.Resultado de la investigación: Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Farm Animal Welfare and Children
T2 - A Preliminary Study Building an Attitude Scale and Evaluating an Intervention
AU - Orihuela, Agustin
AU - Aguirre, Virginio
AU - Lakestani, Nelly
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Children are future consumers; they will impact future animal welfare standards. This pilot study evaluated a nonhuman animal welfare education program, building a farm animal attitude questionnaire for 8-to 10-year-old children. The educational material focused on the behaviors and needs of cows, chickens, and pigs. Knowledge acquisition and attitude change were measured before and after the intervention for children in the intervention group and at a 2-week interval for children in the control group. Reliability of the attitude scale was measured by correlating the answers from the control group at two different time points. Eleven items were significantly correlated at the time points, indicating that those questions were reliably testing children's views on these items. The educational intervention was successful in increasing children's knowledge of farm animals and resulted in some changes in attitudes. The type of favorite animal reported shifted to more farm animals after the intervention.
AB - Children are future consumers; they will impact future animal welfare standards. This pilot study evaluated a nonhuman animal welfare education program, building a farm animal attitude questionnaire for 8-to 10-year-old children. The educational material focused on the behaviors and needs of cows, chickens, and pigs. Knowledge acquisition and attitude change were measured before and after the intervention for children in the intervention group and at a 2-week interval for children in the control group. Reliability of the attitude scale was measured by correlating the answers from the control group at two different time points. Eleven items were significantly correlated at the time points, indicating that those questions were reliably testing children's views on these items. The educational intervention was successful in increasing children's knowledge of farm animals and resulted in some changes in attitudes. The type of favorite animal reported shifted to more farm animals after the intervention.
KW - animal welfare
KW - attitudes
KW - children
KW - education
KW - evaluation
KW - farm animals
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U2 - 10.1163/15685306-12341370
DO - 10.1163/15685306-12341370
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941035638
VL - 23
SP - 363
EP - 378
JO - Society and Animals
JF - Society and Animals
SN - 1063-1119
IS - 4
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