Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Veterinary, Animal, and Environmental Sciences (ICVAES 2020)

Evaluation of the Situation of the People Received Service from Equine Facilities Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Authors
Ayşe Kocabıyık, Fatih Şahiner, Demet Gökdere, Elif Rabia Şanlı, Musa Yavuz
Corresponding Author
Ayşe Kocabıyık
Available Online 21 April 2021.
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.210420.003How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Equine, Covid-19 pandemic, Services, Survey
Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic influences human social life and their relation to animals. The equine sector is affected by covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the general situation of the people receiving service from equine facilities before and during the pandemic. The data were collected from questionnaires based on the pandemic awareness, the measures taken, the time spent with horses and the socio-economic effects of these factors. Considering our survey results, the number of people who spent 0,5 hours at the facility increased by an average of 31% (April) and 38% (May) during the pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic month (March), and during the transition to controlled social life (June-July), it was increased 19-11%, respectively. This situation has been attributed to the facilities which allow people to maintain social distance and psychological effects of horses on humans. There are a negative relationship between the facility density and the time spent at the facilities. People were aware that there will be no contamination from horses. Pandemic sanitary practices were used at the facility for humans. However, they did not sanitized horses or their equipment. Overall facility workers and the questioners did not get the Covid-19.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Veterinary, Animal, and Environmental Sciences (ICVAES 2020)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
21 April 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-367-7
ISSN
2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.210420.003How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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