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Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

BACKGROUND: Food serves as a vehicle for many pathogenic and toxigenic agents that cause food-borne diseases. Knowledge, attitude, and practices are key factors in reducing the incidence of food-borne diseases in food service areas. The main objective of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitud...

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Autores principales: Zyoud, Sa’ed, Shalabi, Jawad, Imran, Kathem, Ayaseh, Lina, Radwany, Nawras, Salameh, Ruba, Sa’dalden, Zain, Sharif, Labib, Sweileh, Waleed, Awang, Rahmat, Al-Jabi, Samah
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31096949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6955-2
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author Zyoud, Sa’ed
Shalabi, Jawad
Imran, Kathem
Ayaseh, Lina
Radwany, Nawras
Salameh, Ruba
Sa’dalden, Zain
Sharif, Labib
Sweileh, Waleed
Awang, Rahmat
Al-Jabi, Samah
author_facet Zyoud, Sa’ed
Shalabi, Jawad
Imran, Kathem
Ayaseh, Lina
Radwany, Nawras
Salameh, Ruba
Sa’dalden, Zain
Sharif, Labib
Sweileh, Waleed
Awang, Rahmat
Al-Jabi, Samah
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description BACKGROUND: Food serves as a vehicle for many pathogenic and toxigenic agents that cause food-borne diseases. Knowledge, attitude, and practices are key factors in reducing the incidence of food-borne diseases in food service areas. The main objective of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude, and practices related to food poisoning among parents of children in Nablus, Palestine. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in primary healthcare centers in Nablus district from May to July 2015. Data were collected using structured questionnaire interviews with parents to collect information on food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices, alongside sociodemographic characteristics. RESULTS: Four-hundred and twelve parents were interviewed, 92.7% were mothers. The median knowledge score was 12.0 with an interquartile range (IQR) of 11.0–14.0. The median attitude score was 11.0 with IQR of 10.0–13.0, while the median practice score was 18.0 with IQR of 16.0–19.0. Significant modest positive correlations were found between respondents’ knowledge and attitude scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.24, p < 0.001), knowledge and practice scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.23, p < 0.001), and attitude and practice scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.30, p < 0.001). Respondents with a higher education level and who live in a city were the only factors significantly associated with higher knowledge scores (p < 0.05). Attitude improved as educational level increased (p < 0.05) and income level increased (p < 0.05). Those of female gender and employed were statistically significantly associated with higher satisfactory hygienic practices in relation to the prevention of food poisoning (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding food poisoning prevention are associated with each other and are affected by a complex interplay between socio-economic variables. The study highlights the need for health education programmes and general awareness campaigns that intend not only to enhance knowledge but also promote parents to practice food safety measures strictly and further strengthen their awareness level. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-6955-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-65243282019-05-24 Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine Zyoud, Sa’ed Shalabi, Jawad Imran, Kathem Ayaseh, Lina Radwany, Nawras Salameh, Ruba Sa’dalden, Zain Sharif, Labib Sweileh, Waleed Awang, Rahmat Al-Jabi, Samah BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Food serves as a vehicle for many pathogenic and toxigenic agents that cause food-borne diseases. Knowledge, attitude, and practices are key factors in reducing the incidence of food-borne diseases in food service areas. The main objective of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude, and practices related to food poisoning among parents of children in Nablus, Palestine. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in primary healthcare centers in Nablus district from May to July 2015. Data were collected using structured questionnaire interviews with parents to collect information on food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices, alongside sociodemographic characteristics. RESULTS: Four-hundred and twelve parents were interviewed, 92.7% were mothers. The median knowledge score was 12.0 with an interquartile range (IQR) of 11.0–14.0. The median attitude score was 11.0 with IQR of 10.0–13.0, while the median practice score was 18.0 with IQR of 16.0–19.0. Significant modest positive correlations were found between respondents’ knowledge and attitude scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.24, p < 0.001), knowledge and practice scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.23, p < 0.001), and attitude and practice scores regarding food poisoning (r = 0.30, p < 0.001). Respondents with a higher education level and who live in a city were the only factors significantly associated with higher knowledge scores (p < 0.05). Attitude improved as educational level increased (p < 0.05) and income level increased (p < 0.05). Those of female gender and employed were statistically significantly associated with higher satisfactory hygienic practices in relation to the prevention of food poisoning (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding food poisoning prevention are associated with each other and are affected by a complex interplay between socio-economic variables. The study highlights the need for health education programmes and general awareness campaigns that intend not only to enhance knowledge but also promote parents to practice food safety measures strictly and further strengthen their awareness level. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-6955-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6524328/ /pubmed/31096949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6955-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zyoud, Sa’ed
Shalabi, Jawad
Imran, Kathem
Ayaseh, Lina
Radwany, Nawras
Salameh, Ruba
Sa’dalden, Zain
Sharif, Labib
Sweileh, Waleed
Awang, Rahmat
Al-Jabi, Samah
Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_full Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_short Knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
title_sort knowledge, attitude and practices among parents regarding food poisoning: a cross-sectional study from palestine
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31096949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6955-2
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