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Food Handling Practices, Knowledge And Beliefs Of Families With Young Children Based On The Health Belief Model, Adeline Lum
Food Handling Practices, Knowledge And Beliefs Of Families With Young Children Based On The Health Belief Model, Adeline Lum
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Objective: To determine current food handling practices, knowledge and beliefs of primary food handlers with children 10 years old and the relationship between these components.
Design: Surveys were developed based on FightBac!™ concepts and the Health Belief Model (HBM) construct.
Participants: The majority of participants (n= 503) were females (67%), Caucasians (80%), aged between 30 to 49 years old (83%), had one or two children (83%), prepared meals all or most of the time (76%) and consumed meals away from home three times or less per week (66%).
Analysis: Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (rho) …