Factors Influencing Food Safety Education Practices among Obstetricians.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare providers (HCPs) are responsible for educating pregnant women about food safety issues in to prevent infectious diseases; however, few HCPs provide their pregnant women with such information. This study aimed to identify food safety education practices, attitudes and barriers among obstetricians and determine the factors affecting education practices. In this cross-sectional study, 238 obstetricians completed a self-administered questionnaire. Medians with interquartile ranges, frequency, crosstabs test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruska-Wallis H test, Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc method, and multiple regression were used for data analysis. The study found that obstetricians provide pregnant women with a low amount of food safety information (2.5 ± 0.42, and the top three barriers reporte

SUBMITTER: Alyousef HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9819058 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature