Related Attitudes Research Articles

Physicians' knowledge, attitude and practice about reporting work-related accidents in primary care

Objective: To evaluate physicians' knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on Work-related Accident Reports (Comunicações de Acidentes de Trabalho, CATs) in Primary Care. Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out from November 2020 to January 2021, with application of the Survey to 229 physicians from Fortaleza, Ceará. The instrument was sent electronically with questions about knowledge, attitude and practice in relation to the CAT. The project was approved by a Research Ethics Committee under opinion No. 4.263.48. Results: The highest inadequacy rate was related to practice (85.59%). Inadequate knowledge was associated with the existence of different forms of medical employment (p=0.04), inadequate practice (p<0.001) and inadequate attitude (p=0.009). Inadequate attitude was associated with inadequate practice (p=0.026) and inadequate knowledge (p=0.009). Furthermore, 88.21% of the participants (n=202) stated that they had never filled in the CAT. Inadequate practices were associated with inadequate knowledge (p<0.001) and inadequate attitude (p=0.026). Conclusion: The physicians' knowledge, attitude and practice in relation to the CAT need to be improved.

Adoptees' basic need satisfaction within romantic relationships: The role of attachment orientations and relational attitudes

Little is known about the challenges adoptees face in their romantic relationships. This study examines the association between adoption and three relational attitudes in romantic relationships: authenticity, pathological concern, and sense of entitlement, with a possible role for attachment style. 268 participants aged 18–60 (18.8% males, 59.3% adopted) completed online questionnaires assessing attachment dimensions and the following variables in the context of romantic relationships: sense of entitlement, pathological concern, authenticity, and basic needs satisfaction. Adoptees reported higher levels of attachment avoidance, relational entitlement, pathological concern and lower authenticity and need satisfaction within the context of their romantic relationships than non-adoptees. The association between adoption status and basic need satisfaction in romantic relationships was partially explained by avoidant attachment, relational entitlement and authenticity in relationships. Findings strengthen the claim that relational challenges associated with being adopted at a young age continue into adulthood. The dissatisfaction that adoptees tend to feel in romantic relationships appears to be driven by avoidant attachment orientation and related problematic relational attitudes (inflated and restricted sense of relational entitlement, lack of relational authenticity), rather than by adoption status per se. Longitudinal designs should be designed to further our understanding of the cause-and-effect relationships between the variables in our study.

Feeling Misinformed? The Role of Perceived Difficulty in Evaluating Information Online in News Avoidance and News Fatigue

ABSTRACT As misinformation has become a prominent topic in U.S. politics, Americans have become increasingly concerned about the problem that misinformation poses. Correspondingly, people have become weary of news media, with some actively avoiding news media and political information. While many situational and contextual factors contribute to news avoidance, this study considers how the feeling of being misinformed online might to contribute to related news attitudes and behaviors, like active news avoidance and news fatigue. Using panel data from a three-wave survey of U.S. adults collected during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, we find that feeling misinformed online is a widely felt phenomenon in the U.S. that is associated with increased active news avoidance and news fatigue overtime. We also find that strong partisans in the U.S. asymmetrically shift their news media use when they feel misinformed online; with strong Democrats relying more on non-partisan news media and strong Republicans using less news media overall, including less conservative news media.

THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF AESTHETICS: WHAT CAN PRACTICAL AESTHETICS DO FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD?

The article considers the expediency of using the ideas of contemporary practical aesthetics in the political action necessary for solving the political and ecological crisis of our time. It is postulated that overcoming the exploitative attitude in human relations with the world is impossible without transforming our desires, aesthetic feelings and habits, which determine everyday actions more directly than reason or duty. As an alternative to the model of aesthetic experience accompanying the logic of consumption, it is proposed to actualise the deliberative component inherent in aesthetics itself, as well as to use the groundwork of Yuriko Saito’s “aesthetics of care”, which considers openness and compliance to life as the central aesthetic value. It is concluded that the ideas of contemporary practical aesthetics should form the basis of the grassroots political movement needed to effectively address the problems of our time.

Insights into Second-grade Students’ English Vocabulary Learning Anxiety Differences

With the development of humanistic psychology as well as modern English education, the emotional factors in the fundamental stage of English learning have been emphasized by scholars at home and abroad Since the early 20th century, which contributes a large number of exceptional research about the correlation between strategies of male and female English learning and academic performance. What stand out is English words that exert an essential impact on English study process and strongly associated with the comprehensive outcomes. However, studies focus on two sexes’ English learning anxiety differences and senior high school English vocabulary learning are still relatively rare, especially for the combination of which two aspects. Thus, this work is devoted to make further understanding of the English vocabulary learning anxiety differences between two genders and possible factors involved. 64 second-grade students were selected and surveyed through a questionnaire adapted from Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale by Horwitz and Likert to analyze relative anxiety feelings and attitudes towards domestic senior high school English vocabulary learning courses. The experimental results showed that: The English vocabulary learning anxiety of both male and female belongs to upper middle state while that of female students is slightly higher than the rest. External forces, students’ self-recognition and consciousness towards English learning are the main resources of anxiety.

Long-term psychosexual adjustment of adults born with classic bladder exstrophy

In literature studies exploring long-term psychosexual development and intimacy of adults living with the complex genitourinary conditions associated with classic bladder exstrophy (BE) are scarce, with small sample sizes and lacking in methodology. This study aims to examine areas of potential psychosexual distress in adults born with classic BE to develop targeted clinical interventions. The validated Sexrelation Evaluation Schedule Assessment Monitoring (SESAMO) questionnaire was administered to all BE patients aged ≥18 years operated on in our tertiary referral center during infancy. Z-scores were calculated for each area of interest, considering i) gender (female vs male); ii) committed partnership status (singles vs couples); iii) the voiding technique adopted to empty the bladder. A total of 33 (F:M 12:21; singles: couples 11:22) adults with BE were enrolled in the study at a median age of 39 (32-47) years. Overall, BE adults performed the worst regarding psychosexual identity (z-score:-1.282), pleasure (z-score:-0.915) and desire (z-score:-0.583); singles regarding relational attitude (z-score:-1.751) and imaginative eroticism (z-score:-0.806); couples regarding extramarital sexuality (z-score:-1.175) and sexual communication (z-score:-0.255). When it came to gender, females significantly performed worse than males regarding psychosexual identity (-1.645 vs -1.282; p-value:<0.0001) and areas of pleasure (-1.126 vs -0.359; p-value:<0.001). Single females performed worse than males regarding actual masturbation (-0.763 vs 0.583; p-value:<0.05) and better regarding relational attitude (-1.226 vs -1.751; p-value:<0.05). Females in stable relationships performed worse than males regarding actual masturbation (-1.645 vs 0.306; p-value:<0.05) and better regarding sexual intercourse (1.866 vs -0.565; p-value:<0.01). The voiding techniques used to empty the bladder did not show any influence on these results. Adults with BE have a greater likelihood of experiencing a wide range of psychosexual difficulties. Identifying the specific areas of psychological distress can help them cope with their medical experience and actual clinical condition and clinicians plan adequate psychological interventions.

Reproductive Health in Trans and Gender Diverse Patients: Fertility related knowledge, attitudes, and decision-making among gender diverse youth - A narrative review.

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth demonstrate low utilization of fertility preservation before medical and surgical gender-affirming interventions. However, a significant number of TGD youth have goals for parenthood and/or recognize that their attitude toward future family-building goals may change over time. In this narrative review, we conclude that TGD young people should have ongoing opportunities to discuss their family-building goals and options for fertility preservation. Validated decision tools can help facilitate these discussions. The number of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth seeking care continues to increase, necessitating comprehensive counseling about potential long-term effects of gender-affirming medical interventions on fertility. The objective of this narrative review was to examine fertility-related knowledge, attitudes, and decision-making (including factors influencing decisions, decision regret, and decision tools) among TGD youth. We searched PubMed, PsycInfo, and Google Scholar for original, peer-reviewed research investigating TGD youth attitudes and knowledge of fertility and fertility preservation, perspectives on fertility counseling and fertility preservation decision-making, as well as fertility-related decision tools. We reviewed 106 studies; eight were included in this narrative review. Four studies assessed TGD youth knowledge and attitudes of fertility and fertility preservation, three examined perspectives on fertility counseling and fertility preservation decision-making, and three discussed development of decision tools. Key findings were that: (1) many TGD youth are aware of potential fertility-related impacts of gender-affirming treatments, but there are still unmet informational needs, (2) some TGD youth report an interest in future biological parenthood, and of those who are not currently interested in biological parenthood, many acknowledge their desires may change over time, (3) ongoing discussions about fertility and fertility preservation are critical, and (4) decision tools are in development. In conclusion, TGD youth and their caregivers should receive ongoing, comprehensive fertility counseling and decision tools may be helpful to facilitate these discussions and decisions in each youth's gender-affirming care journey.

The effect of Sleep Leadership Training on U.S. Army human performance team members

Most U.S. Servicemembers (SMs) get less than the recommended amount of sleep per night, which has been shown to be directly influenced by local leadership. Previous research demonstrated that a brief sleep leadership training (SLT) protocol resulted in improved knowledge and attitudes regarding sleep among U.S. Army leaders, and improvements in the sleep health of their SMs. Human Performance Teams (HPT) offer one solution to propel the cultural change related to sleep, however, little is known about HPT members' own sleep related knowledge, practices, attitudes, and beliefs. This mixed-methods study determined the effect of (SLT) on the sleep-related knowledge, practices, attitudes, beliefs, and perceived competency of HPT members, explored their experiences addressing SM sleep, and gauged their perceived value in receiving the training. Thirty-one individuals received 2 days of SLT. Baseline and 6-week post training follow-up measures were collected, and participants were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews to explore their unique experiences addressing sleep, as well as their perceived value in receiving SLT. Training had no significant effects on HPT members' sleep practices or sleep beliefs, some significant effects on their attitudes and knowledge about sleep, and significant effects on their perceived competence to address sleep in their units. Results suggest that HPT members benefited from the training through enhancement of their competence to address sleep with leadership. However, they struggle to obtain sufficient sleep themselves. More research is needed to identify methods of overcoming specific barriers to sleep imposed on SMs.

The impacts of ideological polarization among political elites on citizens’ attitudes toward opposing-party supporters via an affective channel

ABSTRACT Recent studies have reported that the ideological polarization of party elites induces citizens’ affective polarization toward parties in the United States, while others have found that American citizens’ affective polarization strengthens their biased attitudes toward opposing-party supporters. This study tests the implication of the literature that affective polarization mediates between the ideological polarization of party elites and biased attitudes against fellow citizens using survey experiments in the United States and South Korea. We find three common results between the two countries. First, the manipulation of the ideological distance between the two parties does not influence respondents’ relative affect between them. Second, however, there appears to be a positive correlation between the relative affect and biased attitudes toward fellow citizens. Finally, mediation analysis further reveals that the manipulation does not affect the biased attitudes through the relative affect. We conclude by briefly discussing the key findings.

Common barriers and enablers to the use of non-drug interventions for managing common chronic conditions in primary care: an overview of reviews

BackgroundNon-drug interventions are recommended for chronic condition prevention and management yet are underused in clinical practice. Understanding barriers and enablers to using non-drug interventions may help implement non-drug interventions in primary care. We aimed to conduct an overview of reviews to identify and summarise common barriers and enablers for using non-drug interventions for common chronic conditions in primary care.MethodsWe included qualitative and quantitative reviews that used systematic process or methods to examine barriers and enablers to using non-drug interventions for chronic condition prevention and management in primary care settings. We searched 5 electronic databases (PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, EMBASE, PsycInfo and CINAHL) from inception to September 2022. Two authors independently screened reviews. One author extracted and deductively coded data to Consolidated Framework of Implementation Research (CFIR) (and where relevant, Theoretical Domains Framework [TDF]). A second author validated 10% of extracted data and coding. Data was synthesised thematically using CFIR and TDF. One author assessed the methodological quality of included reviews using a modified AMSTAR 2 tool, with 10% validated by a second author. We assessed overlap between primary studies in included reviews.ResultsFrom 5324 records, we included 25 reviews, with data predominately from patients. Overall, 130 subthemes (71 barrier and 59 enabler) were identified across 4 CFIR domains (Innovation, Outer Setting, Inner Setting, and Individuals), and all TDF domains. Common barrier and enabler subthemes were identified for CFIR constructs of Innovation Adaptability, Innovation Cost, Innovation Relative Advantage, Local Attitudes, External Pressure, Local Conditions, Relational Connections, Available Resources, and Access to Knowledge and Information. For TDF domains, important barrier and enabler subthemes were identified for Knowledge, Skills, Environmental Context and Resources, Beliefs about Consequences, Reinforcement, and Emotion.ConclusionsWe synthesised reviews to provide new insight into common barriers and enablers for using non-drug interventions to prevent and manage chronic conditions in primary care. The factors identified can inform the development of generalisable implementation interventions to enhance uptake of multiple non-drug interventions simultaneously.Trial RegistrationThis study was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42022357583).

Making sense of farmland biodiversity management: an evaluation of a farmland biodiversity management communication strategy with farmers

AbstractBiodiversity is a valuable resource that supports sustainability within agricultural systems, yet in contradiction to this agriculture is recognised as a contributor to biodiversity loss. Agricultural advisory services are institutions that support sustainable agricultural development, employing a variety of approaches including farmer discussion groups in doing so. This study evaluates the impact of a farmland biodiversity management (FBM) communication strategy piloted within Irish farmer discussion groups. A sensemaking lens was applied in this objective to gain an understanding of how this strategy could create an actionable space for FBM promotion amongst farmers. The strategy was piloted with six Irish dairy farmer discussion groups, after which focus groups were conducted with members of these groups. Additionally, baseline and endline surveys were completed by the members to determine their knowledge, attitude and on-farm practices relating to FBM. Analysis of the focus group data identified that the communication strategy supported the affordance of sensemaking with respect to FBM. Analysis of the data from the baseline and endline surveys relating to knowledge, attitudes and practices found that engaging with the communication strategy promoted farmers to improve their attitude in relation to FBM. Results from this study provide important lessons for agricultural advisory services to support farmers in incorporating FBM into the overall management of their farms and, in turn, to promote the improvement of farmland biodiversity and contribute to a sustainable future.

Adherence to therapy of patients with adolescent depression

IntroductionTherapy of adolescent depression is accompanied by a number of difficulties associated with the influence of the age factor, which include the following aspects: social - with the possibility of forming a fear of stigmatization, biological – with low tolerance of psychopharmacological agents due to the immaturity of the functional systems of the body, psychological – with a combination of oppositional behavior of adolescents and their desire to “be like everyone else”. All these factors may lead to a decrease in patients’ compliance in the treatment of adolescent depression and premature refusal to continue treatment, which may provoke a relapse of the disorder.ObjectivesTo assess the adherence of adolescent patients with a first depressive episode regarding the continuation of therapy after discharge from the hospital.Methods124 patients (average age – 19.4) were examined after discharge from the hospital where they were treated for a depressive episode (according to ICD-10: F32.1, F32.2, F32.38, F32.8). The severity of depression during hospitalization and at discharge was assessed according to the HDRS scale. During hospitalization, 45.9% of patients (n=57) were diagnosed with severe depression (HDRS score of more than 24), 54.1% (n=67) were diagnosed with moderate depression (HDRS score of 17-23) (Zimmerman M. et al. JAD 2013; 150(2):384-8). At discharge, 35.5% of patients (n=44) had moderate depression, 38.7% of patients (n=48) had mild depression (HDRS score of more than 7-16) and only 25.8% of patients (n=32) had no depression (HDRS score of less than 7 points). This indicated the need to continue therapy after discharge. The degree of adherence to therapy and the main reasons for its refusal were analyzed using the Medication Compliance Scale (Lutova N. NIPNI, 2007; 26).ResultsThe average duration of treatment continuation in patients with adolescent depression was 7.4±9.6 months. At the same time, 42 patients (33.9%) refused to continue therapy within 30 days after discharge from the hospital. 15 patients (12.1%) turned out to be fully compliant, following the doctor’s prescriptions. The main reasons for refusing therapy were: negative attitude to the fact of receiving therapy and visiting a psychiatrist (n=50, 40.3%), the development of side effects of therapy (n=46, 37.1%), negative attitude of relatives to the continuation of therapy (n=11, 8.9%), and negative attitude to the attending psychiatrist (n=2, 1.6%). In general, formally, the average duration of continuation of therapy coincides with the recommended 6-12 months (Sim K. et al. IGN 2015;19(2) pyv076), however, it is noteworthy that some patients tend to self-cancel therapy without the approval of the attending physician.ConclusionsThe results indicate a low level of adherence to therapy in patients with adolescent depression and require additional measures to improve it.The work was carried out with the financial support of the RSF grant 22-15-00437.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Attitude to tattooing in modern Russian society: Regional aspect

The article considers theoretical and applied basis for analyzing tattooing phenomenon as one of the most widespread bodily practices in modern society. The patterns of attitude to this phenomenon and characteristic of modern society have been highlighted. Certain limitations of these studies and their fragmentation have been noted. The integral variant of this phenomenon analysis, including four components of the attitude to tattoo (cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and motivational) and considering peculiarities of social attitudes of the three main subjects occupying different positions in relation to tattoo (tattoo masters, their clients and a control group without tattoos) has been offered. The empirical study results have been presented, which made it possible to reveal regional specificity of the structure of attitude to the phenomenon of Perm residents (according to such parameters as cognitive component of attitude to tattoo (awareness of tattooing), emotional (assessment of tattoo as a social phenomenon; emotional attitude of relatives, close environment, and respondent to tattoo), behavioral (presence of tattoos; tattooed body parts; desire to get/remove a tattoo in the future), motivational (reasons for getting a tattoo; motives for choosing tattoo design in the future), and motivational ones (reasons for getting a tattoo; motives for getting a tattoo in the future).

Life Dissatisfaction and the Right-Wing Populist Vote: Evidence from the European Social Survey

This study identifies life dissatisfaction and related political attitudes as predictors of right-wing populist voting in Europe. Using survey data from 14 countries (2012–2018, N = 54,263), we find that life dissatisfaction links to negative attitudes on immigration and, in many countries, also to political distrust, and relates through these attitudes to a right-wing populist vote. By proposing a well-being framework to explain right-wing populist demand, we broaden the focus of discontent taken in previous research on psychological antecedents of populism. We suggest that low subjective well-being among the electorate has political relevance and could become a threat to the future of liberal democracy.

The Mediating Role of Attitudes towards Performing Well between Ethical Leadership, Technological Innovation, and Innovative Performance

The business sector is rife with unethical managerial practices, such as blaming subordinates for organizational failings, along with the exploitation of colleagues, favoritism, and conflicts of leadership. In light of this, numerous researchers have endeavored to explain the phenomenon of ethical perspectives and concerns. It is recommended that organizations in the SME sector adopt ethical practices in order to achieve their long-term objectives. This study stresses the influence of ethical leadership and technological innovation, particularly the mediating role of a positive attitude in encouraging good performance. This study, which was conducted in the SME sector of Malaysia in the state of Selangor, employed a convenience sampling technique for data collection and reports that ethical leadership, technological innovation, and attitude significantly influence performance. A mediating role of attitude in relation to technological innovation and innovative performance is hereby reported, and attitude towards performance was found to have an insignificant effect on ethical leadership and innovative performance. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by explaining the role of ethical leadership and technological innovation in expressing and assessing the revolutionary business practices required to ensure organizational success.

Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries

Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries

An image‐based runway detection method for fixed‐wing aircraft based on deep neural network

AbstractVisual information is important in final approach and landing phases for an approaching aircraft, it presents supplementary source for navigation system, and provides backup guidance when radio navigation fails, or even supports a complete vision‐based landing. Relative position and attitude can be solved from the runway features in the image. Traditional runway detection methods have high latency and low accuracy, which is unable to satisfy the requirements for a safe landing. This paper proposes a real‐time runway detection model, efficient runway feature extractor (ERFE), based on deep convolutional neural network, generating semantic segmentation and feature lines output. In order to evaluate the model's effectiveness, a benchmark is proposed to calculate the actual error between predicted feature line and ground truth one. A novel runway dataset which is based on pictures from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (FS2020), is also proposed in this paper to train and test the model. The dataset will be released at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/relufrank/fs2020‐runway‐dataset. ERFE shows excellent performance in FS2020 dataset, it gives satisfactory results even for real runway images excluded from our dataset.

Refueling convenience and range satisfaction in electric mobility: Investigating consumer willingness to use battery swap services for electric vehicles

Battery swap service (BSS) is a game-changing innovation for achieving electric vehicle (EV) refueling, driving range satisfaction, and convenience. BSS is an avenue for swapping a worn-out EV battery for a pre-charged one, eliminating the long charging times of batteries. However, consumer adoption of BSS is overlooked, lacking empirical support. BSS is encouraged as it makes clean ‘fuel’ readily available for EV use. Consumer willingness to patronize BSS is pivotal to EV usage, sustainable transport, and pollution mitigation. Consequently, the innovation diffusion theory is extended with attitude, perceived risk, green self-identity, and task-technology fit to investigate consumer willingness to use BSS. Utilizing a partial least squares-structural equation model (PLS-SEM), 618 responses were analyzed. The outcome revealed that relative advantage, compatibility, attitude, green self-identity, and task-technology fit positively impacted willingness to use BSS. Perceived risk had a significant adverse effect on willingness to use BSS. Attitude mediated the impact of relative advantage and task-technology fit. Also, perceived risk negatively affected attitude. Further, ANOVA analysis confirmed the impact of consumer demography on the willingness to use BSS. Policies involving swapping standardization and synchronization, public sensitization, monetary incentives, and battery performance enhancement are recommended for enhancing BSS acceptance, usage, and proliferation.

진로장벽과 취업 준비행동 간의 경로모형 탐색

Objectives This study is to explore the path model between career barriers and employment preparation behaviors of university students majoring in music in Hebei Province of China. parameters.&#x0D; Methods The subjects of the study are 317 university students majoring in music. The program of SPSS 25 is used for reliability, correlation, and confirmatory factor analysis, but LISREL 8.53 is used to verify the path model using the correlation between career barriers and employment preparation behaviors.&#x0D; Results In the path model finally adopted between career barriers and employment preparation behaviors for college students majoring in music, social ability barriers and home environment barriers reached the internal and external preparatory behavior, which is the employment preparatory behaviors, through major level barriers and occupational knowledge barriers. In this model, internal preparation behaviors acted as a preceding variable that had a positive effect on external preparation behaviors. Among the barriers of social ability, home environment, relative attitude, major level, and occupational knowledge, it is confirmed that the barriers of social ability and home environment act as predictors of fundamental education on employment preparation behaviors. However, it is confirmed that relative attitude barriers have no effect on employment preparation behaviors. The most influential factor of major level barriers is social ability barriers, followed by home environment barriers. The most influential factors on occupational knowledge barriers are major level barriers, and in the next order, the home environment barriers and social ability barriers are indicated.&#x0D; Conclusions In order to increase employment preparation behaviors for university students majoring in music at C University in Hebei Province, the education of internal preparation behaviors should be increased rather than that of external preparatoion behaviors. In order to increase employment preparation behaviors, the preparation behaviors will be increased only by education removing occupational knowledge barriers affected by social ability barriers, home environment barriers, and major level barriers. In addition, educational efforts are required to eliminate social ability barriers and home environment barriers by forming a work-related community and reducing the gap between the rich and the poor of each student in order to increase employment preparation behavior for university students majoring in music.&#x0D;

Antibiotic use in the Northern Irish sheep flock: What lessons can be learnt from medicine records and farmer attitudes to improve stewardship of these essential medicines?

Stewardship of antibiotics used in livestock production has come under increasing scrutiny, from both the animal welfare point of view and due to concerns that antibiotic use in livestock may pose a risk to human health through selection pressure to drive development of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Despite this concern, however, antibiotic consumption in the sheep sector is currently poorly described. This study determines the range and quantities of antibiotics used in the Northern Irish (NI) sheep flock as well as exploring drivers for their use. A mixed-methods approach was utilised, with an anonymous online scoping survey, analysis of the medicine records from 52 NI sheep farms and semi-structured interviews undertaken with 27 farmers. Eighteen farmers contributed both records and participated in interviews. Veterinary medicine records were derived from two sources: on-farm medicine books (seven) or veterinary practice sales data (51). As six of these farmers provided information from both sources a total of 52 unique farms participated. Overall, antibiotic use in sheep on the 52 farms sampled was low, with a median value of 11.35 mgPCU−1 (mean 13.63 mgPCU−1, sd 10.7; range 0–45.29 mgPCU−1), with all farms below 50 mgkg−1. Critically important antibiotics accounted for 0.21% of all antibiotics purchased. Lameness was the main driver of antibiotic use identified by this study. Others included a range of prophylactic treatments such as oral antibiotics to prevent watery mouth, injectable antibiotics to prevent abortion and following assisted lambing. Farmers acknowledged some of these uses had become habitual over time. The veterinary medicine sales records demonstrated significant sales of antibiotics not authorised for use in sheep, on an ongoing, rather than case-by-case, basis. Farmers were positive about their veterinarian’s ability and knowledge to improve flock welfare and productivity, but were unwilling to pay for this advice. However, veterinarians may have facilitated weak medicine stewardship through a failure to adequately challenge farmers seeking antibiotics. Farmers did not maintain accurate or up-to-date on farm medicine or production records in the majority of cases. Despite this lack of on-farm recording, veterinary sales records can be studied in consultation with farmers to provide veterinarians with a farm-specific insight into antibiotic use and related attitudes and behaviours. Farmers and veterinarians can then identify areas and behaviours to target collaboratively, improving antibiotic and wider medicine stewardship, whilst simultaneously improving flock health and productivity.