A protocol for a systematic review into consumers’ attitudes, beliefs and perceived ethical obligations towards farm animal welfare
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- Subject Areas
- Agricultural Science, Food Science and Technology, Science Policy
- Keywords
- systematic review, consumers, attitudes, beliefs, perceived ethical obligation, farm animal welfare, theory planned behaviour, theory reasoned action
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- © 2014 Clark et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014. A protocol for a systematic review into consumers’ attitudes, beliefs and perceived ethical obligations towards farm animal welfare. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e676v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.676v1
Abstract
This article outlines a protocol for a systematic review into consumer attitudes, beliefs and perceived ethical obligations towards farm animal welfare, utilizing both the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Theory of Planned Behavior. A number of secondary objectives will also be explored in relation to the heterogeneity within the data relating to a number of variables known to vary within existing data including; animal species, welfare measures, socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics. The protocol outlines the rationale, objectives, inclusion criteria, search strategy and screening processes for the meta-analysis, and the plans for data extraction, risk of bias and data synthesis.
Author Comment
This is a protocol for a systematic review into consumers’ attitudes, beliefs and perceived ethical obligations towards farm animal welfare.