Assessment of Food Safety and Food Handling Practice Knowledge among College of Basic Education Students, Kuwait

Table 2

Mean scores for food handling practices, food safety knowledge, and total scores for each demographic characteristic.

Demographic variable		FHP^a		FSK^b		Total^c
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	≤ 21 years	7.47	1.939	3.40	2.015	10.87	2.911
	Between 22 and 27 years	7.72	2.029	3.60	1.959	11.32	3.047
	≥ 28 years	7.97	1.992	3.27	2.183	11.24	3.307
	value	0.192		0.529		0.260
Gender	Male	7.13	1.954	3.62	2.141	10.74	3.075
	Female	7.90	1.912	3.30	1.893	11.20	2.874
	value	≤ 0.001		0.061		0.064
Field of study	Science and technology	7.55	1.949	3.73	2.017	11.28	2.990
	Humanities and others	7.55	1.996	3.38	1.934	10.93	2.913
	Physical education and sport	7.26	1.966	3.00	1.932	10.26	2.892
	Applied arts and music	7.68	1.941	3.51	2.117	11.18	3.039
	value	0.567		0.136		0.137
Year of study	First year	7.37	2.058	3.60	2.024	10.97	3.139
	Second year	7.83	1.985	3.30	1.958	11.13	2.855
	Third year	7.43	1.826	3.55	2.035	10.99	2.916
	Fourth year and more	7.39	1.973	3.38	2.074	10.76	3.112
	value	0.082		0.479		0.798
Marital status	Single	7.57	1.973	3.44	2.017	11.02	2.981
	Married/divorced	7.50	1.948	3.43	1.987	10.93	2.934
	value	0.700		0.970		0.780
Students have children	Yes	7.92	2.019	3.49	1.949	11.41	3.181
	No	7.53	1.960	3.44	2.017	10.96	2.950
	value	0.182		0.859		0.315
Number of children	1-2 children	7.67	2.038	3.37	1.757	11.04	2.928
	3-4 and more children	8.23	1.998	3.64	2.194	11.86	3.482
	value	0.339		0.640		0.371
Governorate	Al Ahmadi	7.40	1.894	3.25	1.866	10.65	2.889
	Capital	7.71	2.068	3.63	2.106	11.34	3.152
	Farwaniya	7.63	1.971	3.61	1.859	11.24	2.779
	Hawali	7.88	1.818	3.95	2.481	11.83	3.113
	Jahra	7.55	1.933	3.13	1.869	10.68	2.791
	Mubarek alkabeer	7.38	2.131	3.49	1.968	10.87	3.129
	value	0.524		0.060		0.056
Nationality	Kuwaiti	7.58	1.947	3.48	2.024	11.06	2.958
	Non-Kuwaiti	7.33	2.137	3.10	1.857	10.43	3.033
	value	0.349		0.165		0.119
Mother’s employment	Works	7.61	1.813	3.56	2.040	11.16	2.822
	Retired	7.59	1.928	3.46	1.910	11.04	2.820
	Housewife	7.50	2.113	3.34	2.039	10.84	3.168
	value	0.826		0.511		0.496
Cooking habits	All the time	7.67	2.237	3.77	1.925	11.43	3.259
	Sometimes	7.80	1.926	3.60	2.031	11.40	2.917
	Rarely	7.14	1.815	3.16	1.961	10.29	2.842
	Never	7.02	2.115	2.76	1.921	9.78	2.669
	value	0.001		0.009		≤ 0.001
Who cooks and prepares food in your family?	By myself	7.83	2.108	3.83	1.395	11.66	2.661
	Mother/wife	7.50	2.040	3.64	2.209	11.14	3.156
	Housekeeper	7.55	1.889	3.22	1.913	10.77	2.876
	Others	7.77	1.875	3.27	1.486	11.03	2.319
	value	0.743		0.058		0.239

^aFood handling practices; ^bfood safety knowledge; ^ctotal of food handling practices and food safety knowledge; independent sample t-test applied; independent analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests applied.