Motivation
Studies in which participants who elected not to vaccinate horses were
purposively selected demonstrated that there are groups of horse owners
with low motivation to vaccinate despite living in established HeVD risk
zones (Manyweathers, Field, Jordan, et al., 2017; Manyweathers, Field,
Longnecker, et al., 2017; Manyweathers et al., 2020). These owners
preferentially applied non-pharmaceutical and property-based mitigation
strategies such as covering food and water containers (Manyweathers,
Field, Jordan, et al., 2017). Other studies (Barrett et al., 2021;
Wiethoelter et al., 2017) described a range of levels of motivation to
vaccinate amongst horse owners, and in a study in which community juries
were conducted to assess the acceptability of adding ecological
approaches to mitigate HeV risk (Degeling et al., 2018), jurors who
reflected the public (and were not primarily horse owners) prioritised
current interventions that included vaccination, as well as
non-pharmaceutical and property-based mitigation strategies.