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Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The current South Korean government policy on food irradiation technology should be reformed based on an in-depth investigation of the communications aspect, because the issue is no longer of a technological nature, given the proven safety and efficacy of the processes. SUBJEC...

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Autores principales: Choi, Yoonseok, Kim, Jaerok, Han, Eunok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087909
http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2016.10.2.237
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description BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The current South Korean government policy on food irradiation technology should be reformed based on an in-depth investigation of the communications aspect, because the issue is no longer of a technological nature, given the proven safety and efficacy of the processes. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The target population of the education program consisted of elementary, middle, and high school students attending 310 schools in South Korea (2013: 63 schools, 2014: 104 schools, 2015: 143 schools). Data subjected to analysis were 13,327 pre-education and 12,641 post-education questionnaires received from 7,582 elementary, 2,671 middle, and 3,249 high school students who participated in the education program from May 2012 to April 2015 (n = 12,831), after the exclusion of inadequately filled-in questionnaires. RESULTS: Analysis of the three-year educational effect trend was conducted by comparing levels of variables before and after food radiation education. The analysis yielded the finding that the post-education levels were significantly higher for all variables. That is, for interest in education, perception (necessity, safety, subjective knowledge, and information acquisition), objective knowledge, and attitude, with the sole exception of objective knowledge in 2013. CONCLUSIONS: Given that post-education levels of perception, knowledge, and attitude concerning irradiated foods increased considerably compared to pre-education levels, behavior change should be induced by providing continuous education to enhance, these primary variables.
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spelling pubmed-48191362016-04-15 Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea Choi, Yoonseok Kim, Jaerok Han, Eunok Nutr Res Pract Original Research BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The current South Korean government policy on food irradiation technology should be reformed based on an in-depth investigation of the communications aspect, because the issue is no longer of a technological nature, given the proven safety and efficacy of the processes. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The target population of the education program consisted of elementary, middle, and high school students attending 310 schools in South Korea (2013: 63 schools, 2014: 104 schools, 2015: 143 schools). Data subjected to analysis were 13,327 pre-education and 12,641 post-education questionnaires received from 7,582 elementary, 2,671 middle, and 3,249 high school students who participated in the education program from May 2012 to April 2015 (n = 12,831), after the exclusion of inadequately filled-in questionnaires. RESULTS: Analysis of the three-year educational effect trend was conducted by comparing levels of variables before and after food radiation education. The analysis yielded the finding that the post-education levels were significantly higher for all variables. That is, for interest in education, perception (necessity, safety, subjective knowledge, and information acquisition), objective knowledge, and attitude, with the sole exception of objective knowledge in 2013. CONCLUSIONS: Given that post-education levels of perception, knowledge, and attitude concerning irradiated foods increased considerably compared to pre-education levels, behavior change should be induced by providing continuous education to enhance, these primary variables. The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2016-04 2016-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4819136/ /pubmed/27087909 http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2016.10.2.237 Text en ©2016 The Korean Nutrition Society and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea
title_fullStr Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea
title_short Analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in South Korea
title_sort analysis of food irradiation education for elementary, middle, and high school students for three years in south korea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087909
http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2016.10.2.237
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