School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, P. R. China.
School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.
PLoS One. 2021 Dec 31;16(12):e0261832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261832. eCollection 2021.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationships of food safety knowledge, attitude and eating behavior of consumers during national lockdowns in the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 157 respondents completed the online survey using a structured questionnaire worldwide. Overall, the respondents exhibited good attitude and good knowledge towards public health including food safety especially on the importance of social distancing, mask wearing, well-balanced diet, physical exercise and personal hygiene, such as hand washing during the pandemic lockdowns. A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the relationships among food safety knowledge, attitude and behavior under the pandemic conditions. Results showed that attitude towards food safety under the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns positively affected the eating behavior of the respondents, which exhibited a high β (0.686) among the variables tested (p<0.05). Food safety knowledge was apparently not affected by the food safety behavior of the respondents.
本研究旨在评估消费者在 COVID-19 大流行期间国家封锁期间的食品安全知识、态度和饮食行为之间的关系。全球共有 157 名受访者通过在线调查使用结构化问卷完成了调查。总体而言，受访者对包括食品安全在内的公共卫生表现出良好的态度和良好的知识，特别是在社交距离、戴口罩、均衡饮食、体育锻炼和个人卫生（如大流行封锁期间洗手）的重要性方面。结构方程模型（SEM）用于测试大流行条件下食品安全知识、态度和行为之间的关系。结果表明，大流行期间对食品安全的态度积极影响了受访者的饮食行为，在测试的变量中表现出较高的β（0.686）（p<0.05）。食品安全知识显然不受受访者食品安全行为的影响。
