A Study on the Mediating Role of Food Safety Attitudes in the Transformation of Food Handlers' Knowledge into Behaviors in Hospital Food Service
(1) Background: The aim of this study is to examine the food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of food handlers in hospital food service system. (2) Methods: A total of 215 food handlers participated in the study. The researchers asked the participants questions with a questionnaire including demographic data and food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. The researchers used the SPSS Process Macro 4.0 (Model 4) to determine whether participants’ food safety attitudes play a mediating role in how their knowledge levels turn into behaviour and SPSS software for statistical analysis. (3) Results: Most male and female employees in this study (78.5% and 66.0%, respectively) worked in the production department (p
Authors
- Nevin Şanlıer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5937-0485)
- Elif Yıldız (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1356-9012)
- Ebru Özler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3303-3077)
- Tuğba SOPALI
- Elif Dadak Yıldırım (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0532-2342)
- Sümeyra Sevim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9724-2628)
- Şükrü Arman Aksoy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9522-0564)
- Zeynep Bengisu Ejder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7231-8497)
Institutions
- Istanbul Medipol University (TR)
- Ankara Medipol Üniversitesi
Publication Details
- Journal
- Selcuk Journal of Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Published
- 2026-04-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15316/selcukjafsci.1654099
- Primary Topic
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00