Abstract:
The purposes of this cross-sectional descriptive research were to examine relationship and construct a predictive equation for the food safety management of students from gender, educational level, grade point average, years of being a voluntary student member of food and drug administration committee, means to be a committee member, received training on knowledge about school food safety management, attitudes toward school food safety management, motivation regarding school food safety management and school food safety management practices of the student members. The sample consisted of 239 student who were members of Consumer Protection Youth Club in secondary schools, Chantaburi province, Office of the Secondary School Region 17. The proportional stratify random sampling was used to select the samples. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire and were analyzed by descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression. Results of the study found that 69.0 percent of the voluntary student member of food and drug administration committee were; 52.72 and 47.28 percent of them were in the lower and upper secondary school level respectively; their grade point average was3.74; mean of being the student member was 2.03 years; most of them volunteered to be the student member (70.7 percent); and 69.5 percenthad been trained on knowledge about school food safety management only one time. Majority of them, 73.6 percent, had knowledge about the school food safety management at the low level ( = 8.45, SD =4.13); 74.9 percenthad moderate attitude towards the management ( = 32.94, SD = 5.52); 83.3 percent had the high level of motivation regarding the management ( = 26.54, SD = 3.28); and 66.1 percent of them had the high level of school food safety management practices ( = 7.00, SD = 2.78). It was also found that the motivation, years of being the volunteer, gender, and the attitude had positively related to the school food ช safety management practices of the volunteer students and 16.4 percent of the practices variation could be significantly predicted by the four predictors (Adjusted R2 = 0.164, p<0.001). The standard prediction equation was as follow:
Z PT = 0.224 Z MO + 0.195 Z T + 0.179 Z SEX + 0.138 Z AT