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ArticleIrish veterinary journal2021

Community readiness for collecting stray dogs in Aradan County: a quantitative-qualitative study.

Tahereh Kamalikhah, Somayeh Mirrezaei, Tahereh Rahimi, Leila Sabzmakan, Safiye Ghobakhloo

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Tahereh KamalikhahDepartment of Health Education and Health Promotion, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Somayeh MirrezaeiVice chancellor for Health Affairs, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran.
Tahereh RahimiDepartment of Public Health, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
Leila SabzmakanDepartment of Health Education and Health Promotion, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran. l.sabzmakan@gmail.com.
Safiye GhobakhlooDepartment of Environmental Health Eng, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.

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backgroundPaying more attention to free-roaming dogs' population control seems to be necessary because of public health and environmental problems. The present study used the community readiness model to determine the readiness of Aradan County in terms of collecting stray dogs.

methodsThis study is a quantitative-qualitative research study conducted in Aradan County in Semnan Province of Iran. The semi-structured questionnaire uses the six dimensions of the Community Readiness Model as guideline, with 36 items used for the interview. The interviews lasted 45 to 100 minutes with 11 key members including the governor, prefect, mayor's assistant, city council chairman, key trustees, officials responsible for environmental health network, officials responsible for environmentalism of the city, and governors of a rural district. In quantitative part two, assessors read the interviews carefully and assigned scores based on the rating-scale form suggested by the guideline itself for scoring each dimension. A qualitative directed content analysis with deductive approach was used for analyzing the collected qualitative data.

resultsThe study involved 11 key members of Aradan County, all of whom were male. Most of the participants were over 40 years old and with five years of work experience (73.6 %). The mean score of each six dimensions in Aradan County were: Community efforts (4.78), Community knowledge of efforts (4.28), Leadership (4.90), Community climate (4.38), Community knowledge about the issue (4.20) and Resources related to the issue (3.29) respectively. Community readiness in Aradan County and Aradan City was generally estimated to be in the preplanning stage, whereas vague public awareness was found in the rural areas. In the qualitative part, 870 initial open codes, 589 refund codes, 19 subcategories and 6 themes emerged, including (a) community efforts, (b) community knowledge of the efforts (c) leadership, (d) community climate, (e) community knowledge of the issue, and (f) resources related to the issue.

conclusionsFor improving the process of collecting the stray dogs, it is necessary to focus on holding educational sessions for the public to increase their partnership and justify the responsible organizations' activities to collaborate and provide the necessary financial resources.

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