Scale Construction for Measuring the Attitude of Sericulture Beneficiary Farmers towards the Activities of Technical Service Centres (TSCs)

Harisha, N.; Rao, B. Mukunda; Krishna, T. Giridhara; Devy, M. Uma; Umar, Sulaiman

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.908.313

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“…"The mean score of 2.5 was fixed as the basis for deciding the content validity of the scale. If the overall mean score of the attitude items as rated by the judges was above 2.5, the scale item would be selected and if not otherwise" [14]. In the present case, the overall mean score was worked out as 3.22 and therefore the content validity of the constructed attitude scale was ensured.…”

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Construction of Scale to Measure the Attitude of Veterinarians towards Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship

Vijayakumar

George

2022

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Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the major health problems in human and animals. This threat is increasing daily and is fueled by a range of factors. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animals is one of the greatest source for provoking the global threat. In developing countries, veterinarians are the main driving forces towards use of antibiotics appropriately in the field conditions. Presently there is no provision to monitor the type and quantum of antibiotics prescribed by veterinarians. Here in India, their attitude plays an important role to combat on antimicrobial resistance by promoting judicious use of antibiotics in animals. To know the attitude of veterinarians in Kerala, an effort was made to develop a scale using equal appearing interval method to measure their attitude towards antimicrobial resistance and stewardship. Final scale consisted 15 statements comprising 7 favourable and 8 unfavourable statements to measure attitude of veterinarians towards antimicrobial resistance and stewardship.

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Section: Content Validity Of the Scalementioning

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Construction of Scale to Measure the Attitude of Veterinarians towards Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship

Vijayakumar

George

2022

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“…The relevancy score of each statement was arrived at by adding the scores that each judge had assigned to a statementon the rating scale. From this data, three criteria viz., relevancy percentage, relevancy weightage and mean relevancy scores were worked out for all the statements and statements with a relevancy percentage more than 75, a mean relevancy weightage of more than 0.80and a mean relevancy score more than 3.2 were selected (Harisha et al, 2020). Thus through the process of relevancy analysis, a total of 35 statements which got the above mentioned criteria were selected.…”

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A scale to measure the perception of veterinarians towards antimicrobial use and resistance

Vijayakumar¹,

George²,

Jiji³

et al. 2022

Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

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Veterinarians are the primary sourceof knowledge for farmers on how to use antibiotics responsibly in farm animals and how to decrease the risk of antibiotic resistance.Antimicrobial use and resistance is a multidimensional construct that lacks a specific measurement scale. This paper looks into the development of a scale to assess veterinarian perception about antimicrobial use and resistance. Following a thorough literature review, focus group interviews were conducted with selected key informant veterinarians to identify statements.An initial list of 80 statements reflecting positive and negative perception towards antimicrobial use and resistance was prepared. After editing, a final list of 70 statements were arrivedat. Descriptives of antimicrobial use and resistance, consensus regarding antimicrobial use and resistance indicators were arrived at through relevancy rating by a panel of 40 judges in the field of veterinary science based on which 35 statements were selected for item analysis. These 35 statements were subjected to item analysis among 60 veterinarians selected from a non-sample area. Out of the 60 veterinarians to whom the items were administered for item analysis, 15 veterinarians each with the lowest and highest scores were used as the two criterion groups to evaluate individual items. Individual items were selected based on‘t’ value whereinitems that had a t-value of more than 1.75 were selected and incorporated into the final schedule. Based on the calculated‘t’ values, 14 items were finally selected and includedin the final scale. Reliabilityof the scale was tested using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of reliability test for which a Cronbachalpha of 0.852 was obtained indicating the internal consistancy of the scale.

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“…The Technical Service Centres (TSCs) are playing an incredible role of extension for wellbeing of sericulture farmers through their extension activities. These are the front line units and they motivate the farmers to take up mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing [4,5]. The TSC is the distinctive extension system established at grass root level, which are easily accessible to farmers and helps to disseminate knowledge and make them adopt the scientific technologies of mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing.…”

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Knowledge Assessment of Beneficiary Farmers of Technical Service Centres (TSCs) about Recommended Technologies of Sericulture in Karnataka State of India

Harisha,

Rao,

Krishna

et al. 2024

IJECC

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Sericulture in Karnataka is in the process of modernization in many phases through new demand driven extension approach called Technical Service Centres (TSCs) located at the grass-root level (Hobli and Taluka level). These centres are mainly involved in the dissemination of the technologies developed by the Research Institutes and also in supply of mulberry cuttings/saplings, monitoring mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing and providing information about loan facilities and subsidy schemes. There is a need to study the attitude of sericulture beneficiary farmers towards activities of TSCs. The study was conducted during 2018-20 in the Karnataka state which contribute 35 per cent of silk production in India. An ex-post facto research design was used or the study. Knowledge test was constructed to measure the knowledge of sericulture farmers on recommended sericulture technologies. The Ramanagara and Mandya districts were selected because these district have highest number of TSCs in Bangalore and Mysore division respectively. Mandya, Malavalli and K.R Pet taluks from Mandya district as well as Ramanagara, Channapatna and Kanakapura taluks from Ramanagara district were selected for the study with four TSCs from each taluk. Totally, 24 TSCs were selected for the study. Ten sericulture farmers under each TSC, collectively 240, were selected by using random sampling method. The study highlighted that more than half (52.50%) and more than one third (36.25%) of the sericulture farmers had medium and high knowledge on recommended technologies of sericulture respectively. Only just more than one tenth (11.25%) of the sericulture farmers had low knowledge on recommended technologies of sericulture. The probable reason might be due to fact that sericulture farmers were regularly consulting from officials of grainage centres, TSC extension functionaries, input dealers and peer group about the information on latest sericulture technologies.

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Scale Construction for Measuring the Attitude of Sericulture Beneficiary Farmers towards the Activities of Technical Service Centres (TSCs)

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Construction of Scale to Measure the Attitude of Veterinarians towards Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship

Construction of Scale to Measure the Attitude of Veterinarians towards Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship

A scale to measure the perception of veterinarians towards antimicrobial use and resistance

Knowledge Assessment of Beneficiary Farmers of Technical Service Centres (TSCs) about Recommended Technologies of Sericulture in Karnataka State of India

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