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The likelihood that farmers would tether their pigs 100% of the time, limiting exposure to tapeworm eggs, increased after the first (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001) and second visits (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001). Farmers were more likely to have heard of <jats:italic>Cysticercus cellulosae<\/jats:italic> in the second (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.001) and third visits (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.007), and to know how pigs acquire infection in the second (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.03) and third visits (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.003). Farmers with at least a grade 8 education were more likely to know how <jats:italic>T. solium<\/jats:italic> is transmitted to humans in the second (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.001) and third visits (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.009), and were more likely to understand the relationship between epilepsy and <jats:italic>T. solium<\/jats:italic> in the second (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.03) and third visits (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.03). Grade 8 education may enhance learning from written material. Workshops followed by individual on-farm training enhanced knowledge acquisition and behavior changes. 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