%0 Journal Article
%T Effect of a Nutrition Education Intervention on Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Mothers of Children under 5 Years in the Peri-Urban Areas of Bobo-Dioulasso: Before and after Study
%A Alain Hien
%A J&#233
%A rome W. Som&#233
%A Olivier O. Sombi&#233
%A Isidore Traor&#233
%A Augustin N. Zeba
%A Georges Anicet Ouedraogo
%A Roland N&#226
%A g-Tiero Meda
%J Food and Nutrition Sciences
%P 401-420
%@ 2157-9458
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/fns.2024.155027
%X <b>Background: </b>This study assessed the effect of a nutrition education intervention. This intervention aimed to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers on food safety in the peri-urban areas of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. <b>Methods:</b> A total of 243 mothers of children under 5 years in the peri-urban of Bobo-Dioulasso were administered the FAO questionnaire for food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices assessment during two cross-sectional surveys, before and after the intervention, in January and October 2017. The intervention included two components consisting of a theoretical phase (counselling and discussion) and cooking demonstrations implemented for ten months. To account for the before-and-after design of the study, the McNemar’s test was used to assess the effect of the intervention on food safety KAP of mothers of children under 5 years. <b>Results: </b>The mean age of mothers was 29 ± 6.2 years and 50.6% of them were between 20 and 29 years old. One for knowledge (cooking thoroughly with, p-value = 0.0001) and another for attitudes (perceived benefits of reheating leftovers before eating them, p-value = 0.0001), significantly increased after the intervention. In terms of food safety practices, all the indicators (cleaning of dirty surfaces, plates and utensils and storage of perishable foods) significantly increased (all p = 0.0001 < 0.05). <b>Conclusion:</b> This study provided some evidence of an effective nutrition education intervention for improving maternal KAP on food safety for their child’s feeding.
%K Nutrition Education Intervention
%K Knowledge
%K Attitudes and Practices
%K Food Safety
%K Mothers of Children under 5 Years
%K Burkina Faso
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=133616