Evaluation of a food safety education on knowledge, attitude and practice among 1300 college students of Henan province, China

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10.2991/mse-15.2016.64How to use a DOI?

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food safety, knowledge, attitudes, practice, Evaluation

Abstract

Background: To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practice of food safety among college students of Henan Province, China and to evaluate the effect of food safety education. Methods: We randomly selected 1,300 students by stratified and cluster random sampling methods, then conducted questionnaire survey on their knowledge, attitudes and practice on food safety. Results: The mean and standard deviation of food safety knowledge scores is 62.6 ± 14.6. The average score of girls (63.8 ± 15.0) and medical students are higher than that of boys (60.3 ± 13.7) (P <0.01) and non-medical students (56.0 ± 11.4) (P < 0.01). 95.2% of the students very concerned about food safety issues. However, as encountering with unsafe food, only 0.39% of them chose to complain to the Consumers' Association. Conclussion: It is very necessary to carry out food hygiene education among college students to improve their knowledge level of food safety.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinfeng Sun
AU  - Changfeng Liu
AU  - Yacong Bo
AU  - Jianxiang Shi
AU  - Pengfei Wang
AU  - Jun Zhang
AU  - Baoqing Shi
AU  - W.B. Sapa
AU  - Quanjun Lu
PY  - 2016/03
DA  - 2016/03
TI  - Evaluation of a food safety education on knowledge, attitude and practice among 1300 college students of Henan province, China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechanical Science and Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 397
EP  - 403
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mse-15.2016.64
DO  - 10.2991/mse-15.2016.64
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