Table 1 Co-design process for development of AMU behaviour change interventions
From: Behaviour change interventions for responsible antimicrobial use on farms
Month | Co-design stage | Method | Participants | Input |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar ‘19 | Identifying stakeholders | Face-to-face workshop (n = 12) | Stakeholder advisory board & research team | Stakeholder map, broadening range and type of stakeholders for co-design process |
Aug ‘20 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 2) | Lecturers training student vets | Insights on successful training-based strategies for vets and student vets |
Sep’20 | Co-designing ideas | Small group stakeholder consults via Zoom (n = 12) | Animal health experts, farm advisors, farmers, co-op representatives, researchers | Insights on logistics for delivering specialised training, community of practice approach and best approaches for monitoring AMU |
Oct’20 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 2) | Knowledge transfer experts in education and advisory | Insights on training and CPD for farm advisors and logistics of delivering training to farm advisors |
Nov’20 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 10) | Farmers from the pig, dairy, beef, sheep industries | Insights into farmers’ views and understanding of AMU and good antimicrobial stewardship, across different sectors and regions |
Mar—May’21 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 6) | Animal health experts, vet and farm advisor trainers, behavioural scientists, policy makers, vets | Insights on successful training strategies for vets and farm advisors |
Mar—May’21 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 7) | Animal health experts, farmers, vets and farm advisors | Insights on practical, local knowledge of farming sectors and delivering/participating in herd health consults |
Mar—May’21 | Co-designing ideas | One-to-one stakeholder consults via telephone/Zoom (n = 6) | Animal health experts, farmers, vets and farm advisors | Insights on critical control points and ‘gold standard’ hygiene and health management practices in the dairy and pig sectors |
Aug – Sep ‘21 | Evaluating 7 behaviour change interventions | Online interactive exercise using survey and video software (n = 35) | Animal health experts, educators, scientists, policy makers, vets, farmers, industry | User feedback and sense checking; refinement and validation of 7 behaviour change interventions |