Annie L Reid, Kathleen J Porter, Brittany M Kirkpatrick, Donna-Jean P Brock, Christopher J Altizer, Jamie M Zoellner
Student and caregiver acceptability of a school-based intervention to improve sugar-sweetened beverage behaviors: a mixed methods study
Health education research
appropriate management decisions key sustainable profitable beef dairy farming datadriven technologies aim provide information improve farmers decisionmaking practices however datadriven technologies resulted emergence data divide gap generation use data study aims understand data divide drawing social practice theory recognise emergence linkages reproduction youngstock data practices cattle farms uk eight focus groups fifteen beef nineteen dairy farmers completed topics discussion included data use technology use disease management youngstock future goals farm transcribed data analysed using reflexive thematic analysis social practice lens social practice theory uses practices unit analysis rather focusing individual behaviours practices formed three elements meaning eg beliefs materials eg objects competencies eg skills connected time space conceptualised data divide disconnection data collection practices data use interpretation practices consequently able generate five themes represent breaks connectionour findings suggest data divide exists meanings destabilise practices tensions farmers competencies perform practices spatial temporal disconnects lack forms feedback data practices data preparation practice farmers merge different data sources type handwritten data negative meanings attached therefore sometimes performed farmers tended associate data technology practices larger dairy farms could restrict beef smallscale dairy farms performing practices farmers suggested lacked skills use technologies struggled transform data meaningful outputs data preparation data use interpretation practices often tied office space required infrastructure farmers preferred spend time outdoors animals appeared normalisation data collected data analysed made difficult farmers benchmark progress farmers access discussion groups veterinarians interested data therefore could get feedback data practicesthese results suggest data divide exists three types disconnect disconnect elements within practice tensions competencies negative meanings perform practice disconnect practices temporal spatial differences break reproduction practices lack feedback practices data use farms improved transformation practices ensuring farmers input design technologies align values competencies