Revista de enfermería comunitaria y de salud pública

Abstracto

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Restaurants Workers Towards Food Safety and Food Borne Diseases in Khartoum State Between June 2016 and March 2020

Dr. Raga Hassan Amed, Dr. Gurashi Gabr Alla Hamad

A Descriptive Cross-sectional, Restaurants based, study was conducted for 360 food handlers in 96 restaurants, in Khartoum state, between June 2016 and March 2020 The general objective is to study assess of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice concept of restaurants workers about food safety and food borne disease.

Data were collected from food handlers by using Adapted verbal autopsy questionnaire, The relationship between variables were computed using the chi-square test and p value less than 0.05 was considered significant The odd ratio and its 95% confidence interval were computed ., knowledge about Transmission of foodborne diseases found significant risk factors for isolated intestinal parasite of food handlers(p value 0.041, odd ratio = 2 ) .

In conclusions, Knowledge about Transmission of foodborne diseases is found significant risk factors for the isolated intestinal parasite of food handlers and the attitude toward training and learning about food safety is found significant risk factors for isolated intestinal parasite of food handlers and also The locality found a significant association with isolated parasite stool sample .

Therefore the main recommendations are: More deductive research is needed to contribute further to the understanding of food handlers' practices and attitudes in order to further reduce intestinal parasitic infections in food handlers, and Continuous medical checkup of food handlers should be mandatory to more alleviate the Prevalence of intestinal parasites.