Recent studies have shown that cattle practitioners are concerned about painful conditions and procedures. An understanding of the attitudes toward pain is fundamental to encourage the use of pain relief in cattle. The goal of this study was to investigate the factors that influence Brazilian professionals toward the use of pain mitigation in cattle, primarily during castration and horn removal (e.g. dehorning, disbudding). To reach this objective, an online survey was conducted with veterinarians and animal scientists. The analysis was based on descriptive statistics, chi-squares tests, Fisher exact tests, and Mann-Whitney U tests. The final sample was composed of 147 respondents. Results of descriptive statistics showed that the use of medicine before a painful procedure (i.e., anesthetic, anti-inflammatory, or sedative-analgesic), was higher for adult cattle than for suckled and newborn calves. In newborn calves, those respondents who were more likely to use pain relief agreed with the statements that i) there is missing information about pain control during castration and ii) defensive movements shown by an animal during or after a procedure to justify pain mitigation in horn removal. The primary reasons for choosing a medicine were similar for both procedures: cost, anti-inflammatory effect, analgesic potency, duration of analgesic effect, duration of sedative effect, and route of administration. There was no difference in professional's decade of birth and pain mitigation use. These results may be useful to decide how to optimize the use of drugs by veterinary and animal science professions, and continuing education should help to increase pain mitigation usage.

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牛兽医和动物科学家对巴西的痛苦和痛苦程序的态度。

最近的研究表明，牛从业者担心痛苦的状况和程序。了解对疼痛的态度对于鼓励在牛中使用缓解疼痛至关重要。这项研究的目的是调查影响巴西专业人士在牛中使用缓解疼痛的因素，主要是在去势和去除角（例如，去角，脱落）期间。为了实现这一目标，对兽医和动物科学家进行了在线调查。该分析基于描述性统计，卡方检验，Fisher精确检验和Mann-Whitney U检验。最终样本由147名受访者组成。描述性统计结果表明，在进行痛苦手术（即麻醉，消炎或镇静镇痛）之前使用药物，成年牛比乳牛和新生牛高。在新生犊牛中，那些更可能使用止痛药的被调查者同意以下说法：i）cast割过程中缺少有关疼痛控制的信息，ii）动物在证明减轻牛角疼痛的过程中或之后表现出的防御运动去除。两种方法选择药物的主要原因均相似：成本，抗炎作用，镇痛效力，镇痛作用持续时间，镇静作用持续时间和给药途径。专业人士的出生和缓解疼痛的十年没有差异。这些结果可能有助于决定如何通过兽医和动物科学专业优化药物的使用，并且继续教育应有助于增加缓解疼痛的方法。