Mothers are considered the food handlers in the home; their role is to ensure food safety and hygiene for their infants and children. The hygienic practices dramatically reduce routine exposures to pathogenic microorganisms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the food hygiene counseling impact on knowledge, attitude and practices of the mothers towards their preschool children. Mothers and their preschool children aged 3-5 years belongs to Pravaranagar region (40 Villages) of Ahilyanagar District, Maharashtra State, India were selected for the study. A pre-test–post-test control group design was chosen. The experimental group received food hygiene education through counselling by the researcher, while the control group did not. The Food hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices level of the mothers in the experimental group and control group was assessed after the intervention programme. KAP method was used to measure the impact of counselling. The data showed that in the present study maximum number of the poor and fair scorer’s mothers had upgraded food hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices score to the upper levels i.e. fair and good levels. This shift was appreciable observed in the experimental group after imparting food hygiene education counseling (p-value < 0.05). While in the control group a significant improvement was not observed. It is overall concluded as from the Chi-square test, there is an improvement in the experimental groups due to the impact of food hygiene counselling intervention programme. Continuous educational program for mothers regarding food hygiene and food poisoning through trained extension worker should be provided.
Food hygiene, Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, Mother, Preschool children
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