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Wen-Li Seow1, Kai Wei Lee2, Roshariza Haris3
1Department of Food Service and Management, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
PloS one
|October 30, 2025
概括
数字工具FOODAlyzer©有效地提高了年轻人对食品安全的认识. 用户反凸显了对技术升级和增强教育内容的需求,以获得更广泛的影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 数字健康干预措施 数字健康干预措施
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 数字技术为公共卫生教育提供了新的方法.
- 提高食品安全意识对于预防食源性疾病至关重要,尤其是在年轻人中.
- Z世代 (Z世代) 的大学生代表了数字健康干预的关键人口.
研究的目的:
- 评估FOODAlyzer©的可用性和有效性,这是一款基于网络的应用程序,旨在提高Z世代大学生的食品安全意识.
- 评估应用程序对与预防食物中毒有关的知识,态度和风险感知的影响.
- 确定以用户为中心的数字工具改进的领域.
主要方法:
- 采用混合方法方法,使用在线问卷.
- 数据来自半岛马来西亚的419名Z世代大学生.
- 该研究评估了可用性指标,知识获取,态度转变和风险感知.
主要成果:
- 很高比例的受访者 (94.8%) 发现FOODAlyzer©对于选择优质食品场所很有用.
- 该应用程序展示了强大的可用性,在交互性,可访问性和易于学习方面获得了很高的评分.
- 关于食品安全的知识,态度和风险感知,观察到显著的积极结果.
结论:
- FOODAlyzer©显示了提高年轻成年人食品安全意识的巨大潜力.
- 用户反确定了需要改进的关键领域,包括技术改进 (例如移动应用程序,多语言支持) 和教育内容的进步 (例如游戏化,更清晰的标准).
- 解决这些用户识别的局限性可以优化FOODAlyzer©作为未来数字公共卫生工具的模型.
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