Faculty of Health Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics Department, Ankara Medipol University, Ankara, Turkey.
Faculty of Applied Sciences, The Department of Actuarial Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
J Am Coll Nutr. 2020 Mar-Apr;39(3):224-234. doi: 10.1080/07315724.2019.1639084. Epub 2019 Jul 24.
The aim of this article is to examine the relationships among food safety knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors of young women aged between 20 and 25 years and to investigate the mediating role of food safety attitude between knowledge and behavior. The cross-sectional study was conducted with a total of 1,219 young women, with a mean age of 21.3 ± 1.25 years. In order to express the effects of food safety knowledge and attitude on behavior, a structural model was proposed. First, a confirmatory measurement model which reveals how well the observed variables represent the underlying constructs was tested. In the second step, the structural model which allows for analyzing multiple regression equations with multiple dependent variables was analyzed. In order to investigate whether the effect of food safety knowledge on behavior can be mediated by attitude, the mediation analysis was performed. The findings provided support for the hypothesis by clearly indicating that the relationship between food safety knowledge and behavior is mediated by attitude. This implies that encouraging food safety attitude by increasing knowledge rather than simply increasing the level of knowledge might be a more appropriate target for behavior. Although there are direct relationships among knowledge, attitude, and behavior; it is a fact that people's knowledge will not turn into behavior anytime and anywhere. Governments, food producers, food industrialists, and consumers must all be counted as the people who responsible for providing food safety. With this responsibility, the role of the government is to realize effective, widespread, and systematic food control. Consumers are the last point of contact to food; therefore, consumers' knowledge and practice of food safety play significant roles in foodborne disease outbreaks. They need to learn about safe food handling procedures to maintain their health now and in the future.Key teaching pointsWomen have important tasks in the purchase, preparation, and storage of food.This article develops a mediated structural equation model to link food safety knowledge, attitude, and behavior.Food safety attitude has a mediating role between knowledge and behavior.In order to improve food safety behavior, it is necessary to improve attitude by increasing the knowledge.
本文旨在探讨 20-25 岁年轻女性的食品安全知识、态度和自我报告行为之间的关系，并研究食品安全态度在知识和行为之间的中介作用。这项横断面研究共纳入了 1219 名年轻女性，平均年龄为 21.3±1.25 岁。为了表达食品安全知识和态度对行为的影响，提出了一个结构模型。首先，测试了一个验证性测量模型，以揭示观测变量如何代表潜在结构。在第二步中，分析了允许用多个因变量进行多元回归方程的结构模型。为了研究食品安全知识对行为的影响是否可以通过态度来中介，进行了中介分析。研究结果明确支持了假设，即食品安全知识与行为之间的关系是通过态度来中介的。这意味着，通过增加知识来鼓励食品安全态度，而不是简单地提高知识水平，可能是更适合行为的目标。尽管知识、态度和行为之间存在直接关系，但实际上，人们的知识不会随时随地转化为行为。政府、食品生产者、食品工业家和消费者都必须被视为负责提供食品安全的人。有了这个责任，政府的作用就是实现有效的、广泛的、系统的食品控制。消费者是接触食品的最后一个环节；因此，消费者对食品安全的知识和实践在食源性疾病爆发中起着重要作用。他们需要学习安全的食物处理程序，以维护他们现在和未来的健康。
关键教学要点
女性在购买、准备和储存食物方面承担着重要任务。
本文建立了一个中介结构方程模型，将食品安全知识、态度和行为联系起来。
食品安全态度在知识和行为之间具有中介作用。
为了改善食品安全行为，有必要通过增加知识来改善态度。
