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KMID : 1011620210370050436
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Korean Journal of Food and Cookey Science
2021 Volume.37 No. 5 p.436 ~ p.448
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Consumption Behavior of Food Packing Materials and Knowledge Level of Endocrine Disruptor among Middle School Students in Hwaseong Area
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Kwon Eun-Hwa
Kim Seong-Yeong
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study investigated the consumption behavior (positive and negative) of food packing materials and the knowledge level (low, medium and high groups) of endocrine disruptors, among middle school students (n=240) in the Hwaseong region.
Methods: This research was conducted between 18 and 22 May, 2015, and was achieved using the questionnaire method. Data were analyzed by applying the chi-square test, t-test and one way ANOVA test.
Results: Considering the gender ratio, higer knowledge level was obtained in girls than in boys (p<0.05). Difference of knowledge score by gender was also higher in girls in 4 of the factors evalulated: harmfulness (p<0.05), size of organism and accumulation (p<0.01), excessive using of pesticide in fruit (p<0.05), putting hot foods in plastic materials (p<0.05). Assessment of positive consumption behaviors revealed that girls (3.20 score) showed a higher score in caution of plastics or vinyls when putting hot food than boys (2.89 score, p<0.05). Conversely, evaluation of negative consumption behaviors revealed that boys showed a higher score in eating all the soup of cup ramen (boys 3.07 score, girls 2.54 score, p<0.01) and microwave cooking of cup ramen made of styrofoam (boys 2.19 score, girls 1.91 score, p<0.05). In the comparison of groups for positive consumption behavior by knowledge level, a higher score (3.33) was obtained by the high group in following recipe when using a microwave oven, than the low (2.70 score) and medium (3.17 score) groups (p<0.05). Moreover, the negative consumption behavior of reusing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle to put hot water was higher in the low group (2.15 score) as compared to the medium (1.93 score) and high (1.63 score) groups (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Taken together, our results indicated that to induce good consumption behavior of food packing materials, considering the gender need to take precedence when imparting knowledge improvement related to endocrine disruptors.
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KEYWORD
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endocrine disruptor, food packing materials, knowledge level, consumption behavior, middle school students
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