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Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic
Concerns over food safety issues during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) have sparked worldwide interest. Being part of a farm-to-fork food safety chain, food handlers at home are the final line of defense in reducing foodborne diseases. The present study used a cross-sectional survey to investig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328301/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37418464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288323 |
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author | Al-Jaberi, Tasneem M. Al-Nabulsi, Anas A. Osaili, Tareq M. Olaimat, Amin N. Mutlaq, Sawsan |
author_facet | Al-Jaberi, Tasneem M. Al-Nabulsi, Anas A. Osaili, Tareq M. Olaimat, Amin N. Mutlaq, Sawsan |
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description | Concerns over food safety issues during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) have sparked worldwide interest. Being part of a farm-to-fork food safety chain, food handlers at home are the final line of defense in reducing foodborne diseases. The present study used a cross-sectional survey to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of women food handlers in Jordan. The survey investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women who handle food at home in terms of food safety KAP. One thousand one hundred twenty-six respondents completed a food safety questionnaire during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a mean score of 22.1 points out of 42, the results showed that women who handle food in their houses had insufficient knowledge, negative attitudes, and incorrect practices concerning food safety. The respondents demonstrated high knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the personal hygiene, cleaning and sanitation areas (≥ 60.0%). On the other hand, participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding contamination prevention, health issues that would affect food safety, symptoms of foodborne illnesses, safe storage, thawing, cooking, keeping, and reheating of foods, as well as COVID-19 were all low (< 60.0%). The correlations between participants’ total food safety KAP scores and education, age, experience, region, and the pandemic effect on food safety were statistically significant (P ≤ 0.05). To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first conducted in Jordan to investigate food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices by women handling food at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-103283012023-07-08 Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic Al-Jaberi, Tasneem M. Al-Nabulsi, Anas A. Osaili, Tareq M. Olaimat, Amin N. Mutlaq, Sawsan PLoS One Research Article Concerns over food safety issues during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) have sparked worldwide interest. Being part of a farm-to-fork food safety chain, food handlers at home are the final line of defense in reducing foodborne diseases. The present study used a cross-sectional survey to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of women food handlers in Jordan. The survey investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women who handle food at home in terms of food safety KAP. One thousand one hundred twenty-six respondents completed a food safety questionnaire during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a mean score of 22.1 points out of 42, the results showed that women who handle food in their houses had insufficient knowledge, negative attitudes, and incorrect practices concerning food safety. The respondents demonstrated high knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the personal hygiene, cleaning and sanitation areas (≥ 60.0%). On the other hand, participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding contamination prevention, health issues that would affect food safety, symptoms of foodborne illnesses, safe storage, thawing, cooking, keeping, and reheating of foods, as well as COVID-19 were all low (< 60.0%). The correlations between participants’ total food safety KAP scores and education, age, experience, region, and the pandemic effect on food safety were statistically significant (P ≤ 0.05). To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first conducted in Jordan to investigate food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices by women handling food at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Library of Science 2023-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10328301/ /pubmed/37418464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288323 Text en © 2023 Al-Jaberi et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Al-Jaberi, Tasneem M. Al-Nabulsi, Anas A. Osaili, Tareq M. Olaimat, Amin N. Mutlaq, Sawsan Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Jordanian women handling food at home during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among jordanian women handling food at home during covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10328301/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37418464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288323 |
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