%0 Journal Article %A mosavi, gh %A mostafaee, gh %A hosain doost, gh %A gilasi, h %A gharli pour, z %A babaee haidar abadi, a %A rezaee, a %A soltan alizadeh, l %A vafaee, r %T Studying the Knowledge of Middle School Students in Khomeinshahr City about Food Stuffs Hygiene %J Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences %V 22 %N 3 %U http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-2002-en.html %R %D 2014 %K Knowledge, health foods, students, %X Introduction: Food stuffs hygiene includes all essential standards and regulations for the pro-duction, storage and supplying of food stuffs to market with high quality. The current study aimed to determine students' knowledge about food stuffs hygiene among middle schools in Khomeinshahr city. Materials & Methods: This study was perf-ormed as a cross-sectional fassion on 527 male and female students. Data gathered through questionnaires containing two sections of dem-ographic and knowledge questions. Data were analyzed with SPSS V.16 software. Findings: The mean knowledge score in girls were more than in boys. Also, the knowledge score among students of grade 7 were more than ones of grade 8 and the difference was statistically significant. The knowledge scores were 90 % about suitable drinks, 89% about healthy junk foods, 36% about the methods of preventing food contamination, and 50% about foods with early decay. Most source of infor-mation was related to the mothers with 81.6% and then health communicators with 58%. Discussion & Conclusion: Increasing the kno-wledge of students, especially among boys should be planned in the fields of personal hy-giene, food stuffs with early spoilage, sym-ptoms of food rancidity, healthy building and maintenance of healthy food and consumption of various types of appropriate foods at sch-ools in the future. %> http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-2002-en.pdf %P 101-108 %& 101 %! %9 Research %L A-10-240-48 %+ %G eng %@ 1563-4728 %[ 2014