Attitude toward livestock farming does not influence the earlier observed association between proximity to goat farms and self-reported pneumonia

Attitudes toward environmental risks may be a source of bias in environmental health studies because concerns about environmental hazards may influence self-reported outcomes.The main aim was to assess whether earlier observed associations between proximity to goat farms and self-reported pneumonia were biased by participants' attitude toward farming.We developed an attitude-score for 2,457 participants of the Dutch Livestock Farming and...