Archila-Godínez Juan C, Chen Han, Klinestiver Leah, Rosa Lia, Barrett Tressie, Henley Shauna C, Feng Yaohua
Department of Food Science, Purdue University, 745 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Department of Public Health, Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Foods. 2022 Jan 26;11(3):355. doi: 10.3390/foods11030355.
Low-income families are reported to have a limited knowledge of food safety and resources to follow food safety practices compared with the rest of the population. This paper evaluated a virtual food safety educational program targeting food handlers in low-income families. Trained native speakers of English and Spanish delivered course materials in both languages. A total of 60 individuals participated in the program, with 30 participants in each language group. Most were female, and most had fewer than three children. After the program, participants' food safety knowledge and self-reported safe food practice behavior scores increased significantly from 5.32 to 7.43 (out of 8.00) and from 24.78 to 29.30 (out of 35.00), respectively. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was used to understand individuals' behavior change intention of food safety practices. All the TPB constructs' scores, including attitudes toward the behavior, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and behavior change intentions, were improved significantly; however, only the subjective norms and perceived behavioral control were significantly correlated with the behavior change intentions. This virtual educational program improved low-income individuals' food safety knowledge and changed their food safety attitudes and behaviors, giving a path to develop and evaluate more virtual food safety educational programs in the future.
据报道，与其他人群相比，低收入家庭对食品安全的了解有限，且缺乏遵循食品安全规范的资源。本文评估了一个针对低收入家庭食品处理人员的虚拟食品安全教育项目。训练有素的英语和西班牙语母语人士用两种语言提供课程材料。共有60人参加了该项目，每个语言组各有30名参与者。大多数是女性，且大多数人育有不到三个孩子。项目结束后，参与者的食品安全知识以及自我报告的安全食品实践行为得分分别从5.32显著提高到7.43（满分8.00），从24.78显著提高到29.30（满分35.00）。计划行为理论（TPB）被用于理解个人食品安全实践行为改变的意图。所有TPB结构的得分，包括对行为的态度、感知行为控制、主观规范和行为改变意图，均有显著提高；然而，只有主观规范和感知行为控制与行为改变意图显著相关。这个虚拟教育项目提高了低收入人群的食品安全知识，改变了他们的食品安全态度和行为，为未来开发和评估更多虚拟食品安全教育项目提供了一条途径。
