Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.
Partnership of Food Safety Education, Arlington, Virginia 22202.
J Food Prot. 2020 Apr 1;83(4):584-598. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-19-329.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the holiday food safety campaign, "The Story of Your Dinner," launched in 2016 by the Partnership for Food Safety Education. The campaign was designed to change knowledge, risk perception, and perceived behavioral control ideas among U.S. consumers. Results from the study, conducted from 2016 through 2018, were analyzed overall and among specific demographic groups. For respondents from all 3 years, overall knowledge significantly increased from presurvey to postsurvey. Survey findings indicated that after viewing the educational intervention, adult respondents were significantly more confident in their ability to use a food thermometer while cooking small cuts of meat and poultry and developed a significantly higher perception of the risk of suffering from foodborne illness. The educational intervention was more effective for changing risk perception and perceived behavioral control among some demographic groups. Respondent risk perception and perceived behavioral control significantly increased in more categories for adolescents than for adults. Consumers tended to overestimate their safe food handling practices. Prior to the educational intervention, adult respondents rated themselves highly (5.49 ± 1.64 of 7.00) on their confidence in cooking meat and poultry that is safe to eat. However, these respondents were less comfortable complying with the safe food handling practice of using a thermometer on small (4.47 ± 1.98) and large (4.61 ± 2.02) cuts of meat and poultry. More educational interventions are needed to improve compliance with safe food handling in home kitchens. Future studies will be conducted to identify and address barriers to food safety behavioral change among various population groups.
本研究旨在评估 2016 年食品安全教育伙伴关系发起的假日食品安全活动“你的晚餐故事”的有效性。该活动旨在改变美国消费者的知识、风险认知和感知行为控制观念。对 2016 年至 2018 年进行的研究结果进行了总体分析和特定人群分析。对于来自所有 3 年的受访者，总体知识从预调查到后调查显著增加。调查结果表明，在观看了教育干预措施后，成年受访者在使用食物温度计烹饪小份肉和家禽时，对自己的能力明显更有信心，并且对食源性疾病的风险有了更高的认识。该教育干预措施在改变某些人群的风险认知和感知行为控制方面更有效。在更多类别中，青少年的风险认知和感知行为控制显著增加，而成年人则不然。消费者往往高估了他们的安全食品处理方法。在教育干预措施之前，成年受访者对自己安全烹饪肉类和家禽的信心（5.49±1.64 分，满分 7.00 分）评价很高。然而，这些受访者不太愿意遵守使用温度计对小（4.47±1.98 分）和大（4.61±2.02 分）块肉和家禽进行安全食品处理的做法。需要进行更多的教育干预措施，以提高家庭厨房中安全食品处理的遵守程度。未来的研究将针对不同人群群体的食品安全行为改变障碍进行识别和解决。
