ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2022
Mental Health Impact of Mass Depopulation of Swine on Veterinarians During COVID-19 Infrastructure Breakdown.
Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Impact of African swine fever emergency on the mental health of first responders in the Dominican Republic.PloS one · 2026Article
- Impressions and perceived barriers of implementing water-based foam and nitrogen foam swine depopulation methods at the farm level.PloS one · 2026Article
- Medium-expansion water-based foam depopulation of sheep and goats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- "With every big outbreak, we lose staff": The mental health impacts of depopulation on veterinarians.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2025Article
- Evaluation of commercially available class A water-based foam concentrates for swine depopulation.PloS one · 2025Article
- Water-based medium-expansion foam depopulation of adult cattle.Translational animal science · 2023Article
- Swine industry stakeholders' perception on the use of water-based foam as an emergency mass depopulation method.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Rise of Heatstroke as a Method of Depopulating Pigs and Poultry: Implications for the US Veterinary Profession.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Reviewing a Decade of Change for Veterinarians: Past, Present and Gaps in Researching Stress, Coping and Mental Health Risks.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Mass Depopulation of Swine during COVID-19: An Exploration of Swine Veterinarians' Perspectives.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
- Reliability of water-based medium-expansion foam as a depopulation method for nursery pigs and cull sows.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study was designed to assess the mental health of swine veterinarians involved with mass depopulation events related to COVID-19 and compare them to swine veterinarians not involved in mass depopulation. Additionally, we assessed the well being, quality of life, psychological distress, burnout, and resilience in veterinarians who conducted depopulation events and the potential impact of depopulation methods on these factors. Finally, we identified coping methods utilized by swine veterinarians for improved well being. The study involved the distribution of an anonymous online survey, available December 2020 to January 2021, to swine veterinarians practicing in the United States. A total of 134 responses were analyzed. Stress related to the depopulation effort was predominantly an outcome of two factors: ethics of care (people and pigs) and perception of others (public, colleagues, family, friends, neighbors). Depopulation involvement was associated with burnout (p = 0.001). The depopulation method utilized significantly impacted depopulation distress (p = 0.007), perception of others (
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