Nutritional Status, Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude And Practices In Safety Net-Supported Households In Woreda Two Of Addis Ketema Sub-City, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Safety net-supported households participating in the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) are
involved in public works to make them food secure in sustainable way. But there is insufficient
information on the level of their knowledge,attitudeand practice (KAP) related to food handling,
personal hygiene and water sanitation.The general objective of the study was to investigate
nutritional status, food safety KAP and food security status of PSNP-supported households in
woreda two of Addis ketema sub-city, Addis Ababa. A cross-sectional survey was carried out
among PSNP-supported households in the study area, betweenJanuary andMarch 2019.
Purposive sampling technique was applied to select the study woreda, and the study population.
Study households were selected by systematic random sampling technique. A total of 273
household were selected, from among PSNP supported households involved in public work, as
sample size.Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 25 through descriptive and Cross
tabulation was used to analyze the association between socio economic factors and nutrition
status. Majority (82.2%) of the household food handlers and public workers under PSNP were
females and (17.92%) were males where most of the study population (74.71%) were >46 years
of age.The KAP analysis indicated that food handling knowledge,positive attitudes and
acceptable practices among the study population was less than 50%. Knowledge regarding
personal hygiene was also at very low level (16%) although positive attitude towards good
personal hygiene was markedly higher (66.8%), Water sanitation knowledge was70.3%, positive
attitude towards water sanitation was47.7% and the respondents acceptable practices in water
sanitation was37.4%.Based on HFIAS measurement, 21.6% of the sample householdswere food
secure, 52.9% were mildly food insecure, 21% were moderately food insecure and 4.5% were
severely food insecure. Nutritional assessment data showedthat prevalence of underweight,
stunting, wasting and under-nutrition in sample household’s were33.3%, 41.7%, 18.2 % 19.4 %,
respectively.
Generally the result revealed poor food handling, personal hygiene and water sanitation KAP
among mothers in the study population. Poor hygienic practices by food handlers coupled with
poor sanitary conditions in safety net-supported households can contribute to occurrences of
food borne illnesses, resulting in nutrition and food insecurity.
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Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, Food Safety, Food Security, Nutritional status