Azanaw Jember, Dagne Henok, Andualem Zewudu, Adane Tsegaye
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Biomed Res Int. 2021 Jan 12;2021:6686392. doi: 10.1155/2021/6686392. eCollection 2021.
Since the dawn of human history, foodborne diseases have been a problem for all societies, and it is an increasing public health issue worldwide. The objective of this study is to examine knowledge, practice, and attitude in food safety among college students in the city Gondar, northwest Ethiopia.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 430 randomly selected college students in Gondar City, northwest Ethiopia, from October 8 to November 30, 2019. The data was gathered through a self-administered questionnaire. The collected data were checked for completeness, coded manually, and entered into Epi Info version 7, then exported to SPSS version 26 for more data checking, cleaning, and analysis. One-way ANOVA was done for examining sociodemographic variable association with KAP, and Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to measure the association among food safety knowledge, attitude, and practice scores. The value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant for both tests.
The number of females was higher among the study participants (65.5%). The mean age of participates was 21.1 ± 9.14 (SD) years. The higher percentage (45.7%) of the participants were students in the second year. The overall scores of the food safety knowledge, attitude, and practices of the respondents were 35.7% (good), 38.0% (good), and 29.1% (positive), respectively. Participants with differences in gender, year of study, and food safety training had a substantial variation in overall food safety knowledge ( value < 0.05). The findings have clearly shown that knowledge of food safety does not directly affect the attitude towards food safety ( value > 0.05). On the other hand, overall food safety practice differed in terms of sex, year of schooling, and knowledge of food safety ( value < 0.05) among participants. Training and knowledge score had significant correlation among respondents ( value < 0.05).
This study revealed that the overall knowledge, practices, and attitude towards food safety among college students were very low. There was a significant association between knowledge and practice while food safety practices were independent with an attitude among the students. Such results indicated that there could be problems with foodborne diseases. Therefore, the findings of this study proposed that strength should be done to improve the existing food safety knowledge, practice, and attitude in college students in addition to their normal education.
自人类历史开端以来，食源性疾病一直是所有社会面临的问题，并且在全球范围内它是一个日益严重的公共卫生问题。本研究的目的是调查埃塞俄比亚西北部贡德尔市大学生在食品安全方面的知识、实践和态度。
2019年10月8日至11月30日，在埃塞俄比亚西北部贡德尔市对430名随机选取的大学生进行了一项横断面研究。数据通过自填式问卷收集。对收集到的数据进行完整性检查，手动编码，并录入Epi Info 7版本，然后导出到SPSS 26版本进行更多的数据检查、清理和分析。进行单因素方差分析以检验社会人口学变量与知识、态度和实践（KAP）的关联，并进行Pearson相关分析以衡量食品安全知识、态度和实践得分之间的关联。两项检验中，P值<0.05被认为具有统计学意义。
研究参与者中女性人数较多（65.5%）。参与者的平均年龄为21.1±9.14（标准差）岁。较高比例（45.7%）的参与者是二年级学生。受访者的食品安全知识、态度和实践的总体得分分别为35.7%（良好）、38.0%（良好）和29.1%（积极）。在性别、学习年份和食品安全培训方面存在差异的参与者在总体食品安全知识方面有很大差异（P值<0.05）。研究结果清楚地表明，食品安全知识不会直接影响对食品安全的态度（P值> 0.05）。另一方面，参与者在性别、受教育年份和食品安全知识方面，总体食品安全实践存在差异（P值<0.05）。培训和知识得分在受访者中具有显著相关性（P值<0.05）。
本研究表明，大学生对食品安全的总体知识、实践和态度非常低。知识与实践之间存在显著关联，而食品安全实践与学生的态度无关。这些结果表明可能存在食源性疾病问题。因此，本研究结果建议，除了正常教育外，应加强努力以提高大学生现有的食品安全知识、实践和态度。
