Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechanical Science and Engineering

Evaluation of a food safety education on knowledge, attitude and practice among 1300 college students of Henan province, China

Authors
Jinfeng Sun, Changfeng Liu, Yacong Bo, Jianxiang Shi, Pengfei Wang, Jun Zhang, Baoqing Shi, W.B. Sapa, Quanjun Lu
Corresponding Author
Jinfeng Sun
Available Online March 2016.
DOI
10.2991/mse-15.2016.64How to use a DOI?
Keywords
food safety, knowledge, attitudes, practice, Evaluation
Abstract

Background: To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practice of food safety among college students of Henan Province, China and to evaluate the effect of food safety education. Methods: We randomly selected 1,300 students by stratified and cluster random sampling methods, then conducted questionnaire survey on their knowledge, attitudes and practice on food safety. Results: The mean and standard deviation of food safety knowledge scores is 62.6 ± 14.6. The average score of girls (63.8 ± 15.0) and medical students are higher than that of boys (60.3 ± 13.7) (P <0.01) and non-medical students (56.0 ± 11.4) (P < 0.01). 95.2% of the students very concerned about food safety issues. However, as encountering with unsafe food, only 0.39% of them chose to complain to the Consumers' Association. Conclussion: It is very necessary to carry out food hygiene education among college students to improve their knowledge level of food safety.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechanical Science and Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
March 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-172-8
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/mse-15.2016.64How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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