Participatory risk assessment Peste des petit ruminants: Factor analysis of small ruminants’ pastoral management practices in Turkana district, Kenya
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1998Author
Kihu, S M
Gitao, C G
Bebora, L C
Njenga, M J
Wairire, G G
Maingi, N
Wahome, R G
Ndiwa, N N
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Need an introduction on why define risk- eg new disease,risk factors not defined)This research
established the risk factors associated with PPR spread in Turkana district. The study, a participatory risk
assessment looked at the social cultural and small stock husbandry activities that may facilitate exposure
of sheep and goats to possible PPR infective herds or animals. A questionnaire with total of 62 variables
describing key sheep and goat husbandry and production process in the pastoral set up in Turkana
community was applied to 142 villages (Adakars) across six administrative divisions in west and north of
Turkana District. The risk assessment questionnaire was developed as a Likert scale based on summated
rating scale format. Factor analysis was used to(for) extraction of 7 factors that accounted for 45.3% of
the variance in the reworked 49 variables analyzed. These extracted factors were thus taken as salient risk
factors that are associated with spread of PPR in Turkana.(Need summarized results and conclusion of
the study)
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Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology & Parasitology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Nairobi Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi,Kenya