Exploring the role of risk perception and habit in safe food-handling behaviour change

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the holiday food safety campaign, “The Story of Your Dinner,” launched in 2016 by the Partnership for Food Safety Education. The campaign was designed to change knowledge, risk perception, and perceived behavioral control ideas among U.S. consumers. Results from the study, conducted from 2016 through 2018, were analyzed overall and among specific demographic groups. For respondents from all 3 years, overall knowledge significantly increased from presurvey to postsurvey. Survey findings indicated that after viewing the educational intervention, adult respondents were significantly more confident in their ability to use a food thermometer while cooking small cuts of meat and poultry and developed a significantly higher perception of the risk of suffering from foodborne illness. The educational intervention was more effective for changing risk perception and perceived behavioral control among some demographic groups. Respondent risk perception and perceived behavioral control significantly increased in more categories for adolescents than for adults. Consumers tended to overestimate their safe food handling practices. Prior to the educational intervention, adult respondents rated themselves highly (5.49 ± 1.64 of 7.00) on their confidence in cooking meat and poultry that is safe to eat. However, these respondents were less comfortable complying with the safe food handling practice of using a thermometer on small (4.47 ± 1.98) and large (4.61 ± 2.02) cuts of meat and poultry. More educational interventions are needed to improve compliance with safe food handling in home kitchens. Future studies will be conducted to identify and address barriers to food safety behavioral change among various population groups. HIGHLIGHTS

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Exploring the Culture of Food Safety: The Role of Organizational Influencers in Motivating Employees’ Safe Food-Handling Practices

Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism ◽

10.1080/1528008x.2013.802587 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 321-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ungku Fatimah Ungku Zainal Abidin ◽

Susan W. Arendt ◽

Catherine H. Strohbehn

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Food Handling ◽

Handling Practices ◽

Safe Food ◽

Food Handling Practices

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The Role of Ethnicity, Worldview, and Gender in Risk Perception: Determining the Harms and Benefits of an Activity

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e683312011-129 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Christina G. S. Palmer ◽

Lisa K. Carlstrom ◽

J. Arthur Woodward

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

And Gender

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The role of affect in travel risk perception: a new research agenda

Tourism Analysis ◽

10.3727/108354220x15959441493056 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

I-Chieh Michelle Yang

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Psychological Process ◽

Related Research ◽

Risk Research ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

New Research

This conceptual paper proposes a new research agenda in travel risk research by understanding the role of affect. Extant scholarship tends to focus on travel risk perception or assessment as a cognitive psychological process. However, despite the phenomenal growth of the tourism industry globally, research related to travel risk perception remains stagnant with no significant breakthrough. Drawing on the existing empirical evidences in risk-related research, this paper asserts that affect plays a potent role in influencing travel risk perception – positive affect leads to more positive travel risk perception, vice versa. In this paper, existing empirical evidences and theories are presented to provide support for this proposition.

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A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures

AMBIO ◽

10.1007/s13280-021-01502-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carl C. Anderson ◽

Fabrice G. Renaud

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

Societal Challenges ◽

Increasing Trend ◽

Risk Reduction Measures

AbstractNature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as sustainable approaches to address societal challenges. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has benefited by moving away from purely ‘grey’ infrastructure measures towards NbS. However, this shift also furthers an increasing trend of reliance on public acceptance to plan, implement and manage DRR measures. In this review, we examine how unique NbS characteristics relate to public acceptance through a comparison with grey measures, and we identify influential acceptance factors related to individuals, society, and DRR measures. Based on the review, we introduce the PA-NbS model that highlights the role of risk perception, trust, competing societal interests, and ecosystem services. Efforts to increase acceptance should focus on providing and promoting awareness of benefits combined with effective communication and collaboration. Further research is required to understand interconnections among identified factors and how they can be leveraged for the success and further uptake of NbS.

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Children’s Experiences of Their Journey to School: Integrating Behaviour Change Frameworks to Inform the Role of the Built Environment in Active School Travel Promotion

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18094992 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 4992

Author(s):

Nafsika Michail ◽

Ayse Ozbil ◽

Rosie Parnell ◽

Stephanie Wilkie

Keyword(s):

Behaviour Change ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Theoretical Domains Framework ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

School Travel ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Active School Travel ◽

Affective Experiences

Childhood obesity is a public health problem with multiple effects on children’s life. Promoting Active School Travel (AST) could provide an inclusive opportunity for physical activity and shape healthy behaviours. Data for this cross-sectional study were drawn from questionnaires carried out in five primary schools located in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in neighbourhoods chosen for their variability in IMD (index of multiple deprivation) and spatial structure of street networks (measured through space syntax measure of integration). A randomly selected and heterogenic sample of 145 pupils (aged 9–10) completed an open-ended questionnaire to state what they like and dislike about their journey to school. Thematic analysis identified four typologies (environmental context, emotions, social influences and trip factors) based on the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and specific themes and sub-themes underlying children’s affective experiences of their journeys to school. This study is the first known to authors to attempt to adapt the Capability, Opportunity and Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model into AST and children’s experiences and associated behavioural domains with design aspects. Such an insight into children’s attitudes could inform urban planners and designers about how to apply more effective behaviour change interventions, targeting an AST increase among children.

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How Does Metro Maintenance Staff’s Risk Perception Influence Safety Citizenship Behavior—The Mediating Role of Safety Attitude

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18105466 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 5466

Author(s):

Huaiyuan Zhai ◽

Mengjie Li ◽

Shengyue Hao ◽

Mingli Chen ◽

Lingchen Kong

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Attitude Scale ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Accident Rate ◽

Human Errors ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Safety Attitude

The accident rate is high in subway maintenance work, and most of the accidents are caused by human factors, especially the lack of sensitivity to risk perception, the lack of rigorous attitude towards safety and the lack of safe citizenship behavior (SCB). Therefore, it is very important to study the risk perception (RP), safety attitude (SA) and SCB of metro maintenance staff in order to reduce the accident rate. In order to reduce human errors and accidents, this study analyzed the influence of metro maintenance staff’s RP on their SCB and the mediating role of SA. Based on previous studies, this paper uses the risk perception scale, safety attitude scale and safety citizenship behavior scale as research tools. A survey was administered at the Subway Company, and altogether 268 valid questionnaires were used, and the data were analyzed by SPSS19.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and AMOS 24.0 (IBM, Armonk, New York, NY, USA). The result reveals that SA plays a complete mediating role between metro maintenance staff’s RP and their SCB; and SA has a positive influence on SCB; RP has a positive influence on SA; and SA positively predicts SCB.

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