Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas, sobre la manipulación higiénica de los alimentos en los padres de escolares de la Unidad Educativa Hermano Miguel Sigsig. Mayo-Noviembre, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND: the food handling is a set of indispensable measures; this ensures the food safety and food condition. The World Health Organization lay down, 1 in 10 people get sick each year from eating food contaminated. This produces disease as: amebiasis, Intoxications, among others (1). In the Sigsig town, it has been shown that in 2013, 515 out of 1000 cases have presented amebiasis, reason that we arises the research topic (2). OBJECTIVE: determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices on hygienic food handling in parents of Hermano Miguel School, Sigsig. May-November 2016. METHODOLOGY: it has been made a descriptive research of cross-section; we worked with a finite universe, represented by 145 parents of students from third to eighth of basic education. For data collection we used a survey released by United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture, which it was modified and validated by the authors through a pilot test. The survey was applied after the signing of informed consent. The analysis was performed using frequencies, measures of central tendency and tables according to variables, for interpretation, the information obtained were processed through the programs SPSS 15 and Excel 2010. USING RESULTS: of the 145 parents of schoolchildren, 75.6% have basic knowledge about the hygienic food handling, 89.9% have proper attitudes regarding the prevention of food contamination, and 60.3% put into practice the knowledge on the subject