Survey of foodborne diseases cognition and its influencing factor analysis among the residents in Zhengzhou city
Objective To understand the cognitive status of foodborne diseases and influencing factors among the residents in Zhengzhou city for providing an evidence to improve residents'awareness and the prevention and control of foodborne diseases.Methods A multistage stratified cluster random sampling method was used to select the permanent residents of Zhengzhou city as the survey participants in 2020.A self-made questionnaire was used to investigate the basic information and knowledge related to foodborne diseases of the survey participants.Results In total,1 148 residents were investigated,and 684(59.58%)were aware of foodborne diseases.with the awareness rate of 62.64%in males and 52.96%in females.The awareness rate of foodborne diseases varies among different age groups,with the highest awareness rate in the 19-<41 years old group(79.22%).The resi-dents with annual income level of 10 000-<20 000 yuan had the highest awareness rate of foodborne diseases(68.84%).Multi-variate logistic regression analysis showed that education level(referring to primary school and below,technical secondary school/high school OR=1.900,95%CI:1.334-2.704;junior college or above OR=2.785,95%CI:1.692-4.585),annual in-come level(referring to<10 000 yuan,10 000-<20 000 yuan OR=1.602,95%CI:1.166-2.200),residence type(township OR=5.425,95%CI:3.625-8.118)were the factors affecting the cognition status of foodborne diseases.Television(77.05%)and Inter-net(63.01%)were the main ways for residents to know about foodborne diseases,and most residents had some knowledge about foodborne diseases(70.91%).About the question the main path to prevent foodborne diseases,the proportion of residents with correct answer was high.Conclusions Residents with different characteristics have different cognitive levels of foodborne dis-eases.Targeted health education should be carried out according to the cognitive characteristics and influencing factors among the local residents to improve their awareness of food safety,and to prevent and reduce the occurrence of foodborne diseases.