Paying more attention to free-roaming dogs’ population control seems to be necessary because of public health and environmental problems. The present study used the community readiness model to determine the readiness of Aradan County in terms of collecting stray dogs. This study is a quantitative-qualitative research study conducted in Aradan County in Semnan Province of Iran. The semi-structured questionnaire uses the six dimensions of the Community Readiness Model as guideline, with 36 items used for the interview. The interviews lasted 45 to 100 minutes with 11 key members including the governor, prefect, mayor’s assistant, city council chairman, key trustees, officials responsible for environmental health network, officials responsible for environmentalism of the city, and governors of a rural district. In quantitative part two, assessors read the interviews carefully and assigned scores based on the rating-scale form suggested by the guideline itself for scoring each dimension. A qualitative directed content analysis with deductive approach was used for analyzing the collected qualitative data. The study involved 11 key members of Aradan County, all of whom were male. Most of the participants were over 40 years old and with five years of work experience (73.6 %). The mean score of each six dimensions in Aradan County were: Community efforts (4.78), Community knowledge of efforts (4.28), Leadership (4.90), Community climate (4.38), Community knowledge about the issue (4.20) and Resources related to the issue (3.29) respectively. Community readiness in Aradan County and Aradan City was generally estimated to be in the preplanning stage, whereas vague public awareness was found in the rural areas. In the qualitative part, 870 initial open codes, 589 refund codes, 19 subcategories and 6 themes emerged, including (a) community efforts, (b) community knowledge of the efforts (c) leadership, (d) community climate, (e) community knowledge of the issue, and (f) resources related to the issue. For improving the process of collecting the stray dogs, it is necessary to focus on holding educational sessions for the public to increase their partnership and justify the responsible organizations’ activities to collaborate and provide the necessary financial resources.

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阿拉丹县社区收集流浪狗的准备情况：定量定性研究

由于公共卫生和环境问题，有必要更加注意自由漫游犬的种群控制。本研究使用社区战备模型来确定阿拉丹县在收集流浪狗方面的战备状态。这项研究是在伊朗塞姆南省的阿拉丹县进行的定量定性研究。半结构化问卷以社区准备模型的六个维度为准则，并使用了36个项目进行访谈。采访持续了45至100分钟，包括11名主要成员，包括州长，县长，市长助理，市议会主席，主要受托人，负责环境卫生网络的官员，负责城市环保主义的官员以及农村地区的州长。在第二部分，评估人员仔细阅读访谈并根据指南本身建议的等级量表为每个维度评分，分配分数。采用推论的定性定向内容分析法对收集到的定性数据进行分析。该研究涉及阿拉丹县的11名主要成员，他们都是男性。大部分参与者都超过40岁，并且有5年的工作经验（73.6％）。阿拉丹县每六个维度的平均得分分别为：社区工作（4.78），社区工作知识（4.28），领导（4.90），社区气候（4.38），社区关于此问题的知识（4.20）和与社区相关的资源分别发布（3.29）。据估计，阿拉丹县和阿拉丹市的社区准备程度处于准备阶段，而在农村地区却发现了模糊的公众意识。在定性部分，出现了870个初始开放代码，589个退款代码，19个子类别和6个主题，其中包括（a）社区工作，（b）社区对工作的了解（c）领导，（d）社区气候，（e）社区对此问题的了解，以及（f）与该问题相关的资源。为了改善收集流浪狗的过程，有必要集中精力为公众举办教育会议，以增加他们的伙伴关系，并证明负责任的组织开展合作的活动，并提供必要的财政资源。（d）社区气氛，（e）社区对该问题的了解，以及（f）与该问题相关的资源。为了改善收集流浪狗的过程，有必要集中精力为公众举办教育会议，以增加他们的伙伴关系，并证明负责任的组织开展合作的活动，并提供必要的财政资源。（d）社区气氛，（e）社区对该问题的了解，以及（f）与该问题相关的资源。为了改善收集流浪狗的过程，有必要集中精力为公众举办教育会议，以增加他们的伙伴关系，并证明负责任的组织开展合作的活动，并提供必要的财政资源。