Study on attitudes of students of Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Branch toward food safety, 2016
Keywords:
Food safety, Attitudes, Healthy food, Food hygieneAbstract
Background: Given the importance of high-quality healthy food for humans, contamination control is the most important concern for healthy staff.
Aim: To determine the attitudes of students at Islamic Azad University (Tehran Medical Branch) toward food safety.
Methods: This cross-sectional and analytic-descriptive study was conducted on 326 students of Azad University of Medical Sciences in 2016. A self-made questionnaire consisting of 40 questions was used. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed using internal consistency method (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.80). After collecting data, we use descriptive statistical indexes (mean and standard deviation) among demographic variables and the level of knowledge to describe and analyze the data. The participants’ attitudes and operation are measured by Spearman tests, and the analytical results are given using SPSS version 20.
Results: According to the findings, 55.3, 30 and 14.7 percent of students had high, moderate and low attitude scores toward food safety, respectively. In addition, male and female students had equal attitudes toward food safety, and no significant relationship between sex and attitude was observed a significant difference (p>0.05), but between educational levels (p=0.008) and ages (p=0.001) of students significance was a positive correlation.
Conclusions: Due to the low attitudes score of about half of the students of Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Branch toward food safety, it can be claimed, food safety training in this community is required.
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