Chaudhary Maryam Nazir, Lim Voon-Ching, Sahimin Norhidayu, Faller Erwin Martinez, Regmi Pramod, Aryal Nirmal, Azman Adzzie Shazleen
School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.
School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, 10330, Bangkok, Thailand; National Primate Research Center of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, 18110, Saraburi, Thailand.
Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023 Jul-Aug;54:102620. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102620. Epub 2023 Jul 23.
Annually, 600 million individuals are affected by food-borne diseases (FBD), alongside 425,000 fatalities. Improving the general public knowledge of, attitudes towards, and practices in, (KAP) food safety is necessary for minimizing FBD transmission. In Malaysia, migrant workers account for 11.1% of the workforce, with a high proportion involved in food and beverage services. Therefore, this study aimed (i) to evaluate the current food safety KAP, and (ii) to identify the strategies to promote food safety awareness, among migrant workers across occupational sectors in Klang Valley.
A survey was conducted with 403 migrant workers through phone interviews and online self-administered questionnaires. Piecewise structural equation modelling and multinomial regression were applied to identify predictor variables for food safety KAP and to explore differences across nationalities.
The respondents were Nepalese, Filipino and Indonesian. The majority were male, working in the services industry, had completed high school, aged between 30 and 39 years and had worked in Malaysia for less than ten years. Knowledge was significantly correlated with attitudes and practices. Female respondents had lower knowledge and attitude scores while younger respondents had lower knowledge scores. Indonesian and Filipino respondents had lower knowledge and attitudes scores than Nepalese respondents. Understanding food safety information from social media was positively correlated with the respondents' food safety knowledge and practices.
These findings highlighted: (i) the need to target female, younger, Indonesian and Filipino migrant workers, and (ii) the potential of social media to improve public awareness of food safety and hygienic practices.
每年有6亿人受到食源性疾病（FBD）的影响，同时有42.5万人死亡。提高公众对食品安全的知识、态度和实践（KAP）对于减少食源性疾病的传播至关重要。在马来西亚，外来务工人员占劳动力的11.1%，其中很大一部分人从事食品和饮料服务行业。因此，本研究旨在：（i）评估当前外来务工人员的食品安全KAP，以及（ii）确定在巴生谷各职业部门的外来务工人员中提高食品安全意识的策略。
通过电话访谈和在线自填问卷对403名外来务工人员进行了调查。采用分段结构方程模型和多项回归分析来确定食品安全KAP的预测变量，并探讨不同国籍之间的差异。
受访者为尼泊尔人、菲律宾人和印度尼西亚人。大多数为男性，从事服务业，已完成高中学业，年龄在30至39岁之间，在马来西亚工作不到十年。知识与态度和实践显著相关。女性受访者的知识和态度得分较低，而年轻受访者的知识得分较低。印度尼西亚和菲律宾受访者的知识和态度得分低于尼泊尔受访者。从社交媒体了解食品安全信息与受访者的食品安全知识和实践呈正相关。
这些发现突出表明：（i）需要针对女性、年轻、印度尼西亚和菲律宾外来务工人员，以及（ii）社交媒体在提高公众对食品安全和卫生实践的认识方面的潜力。
