20.500.12556/RUL-184429 Slovenian consumer food safety study knowledge, attitudes, and practices from washing hands to cleaning in the kitchen based on questionnaire analysi Consumer food safety is important as many foodborne outbreaks in Europe occur in homes. This article, part of Consumer Food Safety Study in Slovenia, reports results on the topics of (1) food safety information, education, and experience, (2) washing hands and cleaning the kitchen, and (3) pets, based on a validated online questionnaire completed by 1,621 adults. The aim was to investigate (1) levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices using descriptive statistics, and (2) effects among knowledge, attitudes, and practices using structural equation modeling. Levels of participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices were generally good, although handwashing and pet-related hygiene could be improved. Most effects among knowledge, attitudes, and practices were confirmed. Participants learned from various food safety information sources, wanted to get more food safety information from food labels, were unsatisfied with some food labels characteristics, and had diverse food safety concerns. Food safety responsibility was most often attributed to the food processing industry and least often attributed to consumers. A developed Matrix of Consumer Food Safety (MCFS) was used to design the questionnaire. Future studies could use MCFS in designing and evaluating cross-regional research, longitudinal research, and food safety interventions aiming to improve consumer food safety culture. food safety knowledge attitudes and practices food labels hand hygiene household cleaning structural equation modeling true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Članek v reviji 2026-07-07 11:17:48 2026-07-07 11:17:50 2026-07-08 04:12:18 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 30-65 no. 3 Vol. 18 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-01 614.31 1757-837X 10.15586/qas.v18i3.1633 283874819 QAS_1633-18-030_(1).pdf QAS_1633-18-030_(1).pdf 1 5A5DF15C4BC524F84044549B75A87FE3 e8fe5ee913d4db1f492082fc9994a031d9174a8f0f9267c12dd4d3fea317a7e4 148f090e-79e5-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=237229 https://qascf.com/index.php/qas/article/view/1633 1 9e53c303-79e4-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=237226 Zdravstvena fakulteta 0 0 0