Abstract

Keramat Javdanzadeh, Parviz Aghayii Barzabad* and Abbas Yazdanpanah

ABSTRACT

Introduction: If human being is aware from food health and safety, it can prevent affection to many diseases as well as infection of food and the environment. The present study aims to evaluate health & treatment staffs' attitude towards food health and safety in Mahshahr. Method: This is an applied research in terms of objective and it is descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection. Descriptive statistic including frequency, mean and standard deviation was used to analyze data. SPSS was used to display diagrams of variables under evaluation. One-way variance test (ANOVA) and Schaffe and T tests have been used as well. Results: 150 staffs of health & treatment system were evaluated in Mahshahr. Based on results, there was no significant relationship between knowledge and age groups (P-value > 0.05) but there was a significant relationship between knowledge level and gender (P-value < 0.05). There was no significant difference between staffs' knowledge level and academic degree but there was a significant difference between staffs' attitude and education. The attitudes of graduate, post-graduate and PhD individuals were higher than others. Conclusion: Results of the present research showed that there was a significant difference among staffs' knowledge, attitudes and their gender and education. Therefore, it is expected to train and inform all people in order to promote knowledge level and attitude of public especially staffs of health & treatment system.