Analysis of Awareness, Knowledge, and Behavior about Food Hygiene·Safety Among the elderly

Abstract

Results: Among the particpants, 44.2% of the total people surveyed were elderly married couples, and 14.0% were single-person households. For men, most of the meals were prepared by the spouse (74.1%), and among women, 93.8% prepared their meals themselves (P < 0.001). 61.3% of the total subjects answered that they were very interested in food hygiene and safety. Men (32.4%) thought it was more difficult to collect food hygiene∙safety information compared to women (14.0%, P < 0.001). The knowledge score about food hygiene∙safety was 0.60 (P < 0.05) and the behavior score was 3.70 (P < 0.001). The correlation coefficient between knowledge and behavior according to food hygiene∙safety was 0.371 (P < 0.001).