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Kannika  Ladasuwan; Sumattana  Glangkarn; Kasama  Wongprachum

Authors

Kannika Ladasuwan Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
Sumattana Glangkarn Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
Kasama Wongprachum Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University

Keywords:

Food Sanitation Literacy Development Program, Food Sanitation Literacy, Food Sanitation Behaviors, Food handlers

Abstract

Access to food that is both safe and nutritious is the key to sustaining life and improving overall health and well-being. Food handlers play a crucial role in ensuring food safety and maintaining proper food sanitation in restaurants. This quasi-experimental study (two group pretest - posttest) aimed to determine the effect of the food sanitation literacy development program on the behavior of food handlers in Samkhok District, Pathum Thani Province. The participants consisted of 78 food handlers, randomly divided into an experimental group (n=39) and a control group (n=39). The experimental group received a 5-week food sanitation knowledge development program, while the control group received routine support. The data were collected using the questionnaires about food sanitation literacy and behaviors and analyzed using Repeated-Measures ANOVA and Independent Samples t-test with a significance level of 0.05.

The results of the study showed that before receiving the knowledge development program, the experimental and control groups had no different mean knowledge and food sanitation behaviors (p-value ≥0.05). After one week of receiving the intervention, both groups showed a significant difference in their average food sanitation literacy and behavior (p-value <0.001). The experimental group’s food sanitation literacy and behaviors after the intervention, including both immediately and one week later, were significantly higher than before the intervention (p-value <0.001). This indicates that the food sanitation literacy development program effectively improved the food sanitation literacy and behaviors of food handlers in Samkhok District, Pathum Thani Province.

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