Food Safety Education Needs of High‐School Students: Leftovers, Lunches, and Microwaves

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
pp. 578-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Diplock ◽  
Andria Jones‐Bitton ◽  
Scott T. Leatherdale ◽  
Steven Rebellato ◽  
David Hammond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Food Safety Education ◽  
Education Needs

scholarly journals Over-confident and under-competent: exploring the importance of food safety education specific to high school students

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Diplock ◽  
Andria Jones-Bitton ◽  
Scott T Leatherdale ◽  
Steven Rebellato ◽  
Joel A. Dubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Food Handling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Food Safety Education ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Safe Food

The objective of this study was to explore age-specific reasons why food safety education might be important for high school students (in Ontario, Canada), from a variety of expert perspectives. In May 2014, semi-structured key informant interviews (n = 20) were conducted with food safety and youth education experts. A thematic analysis of verbatim transcripts of the interviews was conducted. Participants identified three major reasons why food safety is important for high school students: (i) they have current and personal needs for food safety information, (ii) high school is an ideal time and place to instill life-long good habits, and (iii) they are part of the foodborne illness risk landscape. Food safety education was deemed important for high school students, who were seen as a unique and captive audience in need of safe food handling skills, now and in the future, for a variety of reasons: potential employment advantages, improved food literacy, combating their sense of “invincibility,” and helping instill essential life skills that they may not get elsewhere. These results confirm the importance of food safety education for high school students and highlight the need to determine age-appropriate interventions and methods to engage high school students and improve their safe food handling practices.

Observation of High School Students' Food Handling Behaviors: Do They Improve following a Food Safety Education Intervention?

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH J. DIPLOCK ◽  
JOEL A. DUBIN ◽  
SCOTT T. LEATHERDALE ◽  
DAVID HAMMOND ◽  
ANDRIA JONES-BITTON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Student Characteristics ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Food Handling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Food Safety Education ◽  
Safe Food

ABSTRACT Youth are a key audience for food safety education. They often engage in risky food handling behaviors, prepare food for others, and have limited experience and knowledge of safe food handling practices. Our goal was to investigate the effectiveness of an existing food handler training program for improving safe food handling behaviors among high school students in Ontario, Canada. However, because no schools agreed to provide control groups, we evaluated whether behaviors changed following delivery of the intervention program and whether changes were sustained over the school term. We measured 32 food safety behaviors, before the intervention and at 2-week and 3-month follow-up evaluations by in-person observations of students (n = 119) enrolled in grade 10 and 12 Food and Nutrition classes (n = 8) and who individually prepared recipes. We examined within-student changes in behaviors across the three time points, using mixed effects regression models to model trends in the total food handling score (of a possible 32 behaviors) and subscores for “clean” (17 behaviors), “separate” (14 behaviors), and “cook” (1 behavior), adjusting for student characteristics. At baseline, students (n = 108) averaged 49.1% (15.7 of 32 behaviors; standard deviation = 5.8) correct food handling behaviors, and only 5.5% (6) of the 108 students used a food thermometer to check the doneness of the chicken (the “cook” behavior). All four behavior score types increased significantly ∼2 weeks postintervention and remained unchanged ∼3 months later. Student characteristics (e.g., having taken a prior food handling course) were not significant predictors of the total number of correctly performed food handling behaviors or of the “clean” or “separate” behaviors, and working or volunteering in a food service establishment was the only student characteristic significantly associated with food thermometer use (i.e., “cook”) Despite the significant increase in correct behaviors, students continued to use risky practices postintervention, suggesting that the risk of foodborne disease remained.

Development and Evaluation of a Computer Detective Game for Microbial Food Safety Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1144-1160
Author(s):  
Hsien-Sheng Hsiao ◽  
Fu-Hsing Tsai ◽  
I-Ying Hsu
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Food Safety Education ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Safety Knowledge

Past studies have suggested that young people lack knowledge regarding food safety, and that food safety education is appropriate for integration into science education since it often involves science knowledge. Thus, this study combined the methods of inquiry-based and game-based learning to develop a computer detective game, called the Poison Riddle, that makes students actively explore food safety knowledge through playing the role of a science detective to solve a task related to food poisoning at home in a virtual world. To evaluate the learning effectiveness of this game, 109 high school students were selected as the research participants. The research findings indicated that this game could help students improve their microbial food safety knowledge. Most students had positive participation perception and gaming behaviors related to the game. In addition, the analysis indicated that the students who successfully solved the game task gained more positive gaming behaviors, food safety knowledge, and significant sequential behaviors compared to those who were unsuccessful in solving the game task.

scholarly journals A longitudinal evaluation of food safety knowledge and attitudes among Ontario high school students following a food handler training program

Food Control ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 108-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon E. Majowicz ◽  
David Hammond ◽  
Joel A. Dubin ◽  
Kenneth J. Diplock ◽  
Andria Jones-Bitton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
School Students ◽  
Longitudinal Evaluation ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Safety Knowledge
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