Factors Affecting the Food Safety Management Practice of Students in Consumer Protection Youth Club in Chantaburi Province

Abstract

The purposes of this cross-sectional descriptive research were to examine
relationship and construct a predictive equation for the food safety management
of students from gender, educational level, grade point average, years of being a
voluntary student member of food and drug administration committee, means to
be a committee member, received training on knowledge about school food safety
management, attitudes toward school food safety management, motivation regarding
school food safety management and school food safety management practices of
the student members. The sample was consisted of 239 students who were members
of Consumer Protection Youth Club in secondary schools, Chantaburi province, Office
of the Secondary School Region 17. The proportional stratified random sampling was
used to select the samples. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire
and were analyzed by descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression.
Results of the study found that 69.0 percent of the voluntary student
member of food and drug administration committee were female; 52.72 and 47.28
percent of them were in the lower and upper secondary school level respectively;
their grade point average was 3.29; mean of being the student member was 2.03
years; most of them volunteered to be the student member (70.7 percent); and
69.5 percent had been trained on knowledge about school food safety management
only one time. Majority of them, 73.6 percent, had knowledge about the school
food safety management at the low level ( x=8.45, S.D.=4.13); 74.9 percent had
moderate attitude towards the management ( x= 32.94, S.D.= 5.52); 83.3 percent
had the high level of motivation regarding the management ( x=26.54, S.D.=3.28);
and 66.1 percent of them had the high level of school food safety management
practices ( x=7.00, S.D.=2.78). It was also found that the motivation, years of being
the volunteer, gender, and the attitude had positively related to the school food
safety management practices of the volunteer students and 16.4 percent of the
practices variation could be significantly predicted by the four predictors (adjusted
R2=0.164, p<0.001). The equation can predict the food safety management practice
of young food and drug administration. The motivation, period of being young food
and drug administration, sex and attitude can be used to predict the food safety
management practice of young food and drug administration at 0. 05 level of
statistical significance and predict 16.4 percent (adjusted R2= 0.164, p<0.001). The
standard prediction equation was as follow:
Z' PT = 0.224 Z' MO + 0.195 Z' T + 0.179 Z' SEX + 0.138 Z' AT