Consumption of foods containing prohibited artificial colors among middle-school children in Nay Pyi Taw union territory, Myanmar

Table 2 Food safety knowledge and consumption of FDA^# prohibited artificial color containing foods among middle school children (N = 766)

Variables	Male (n = 359)		Female (n = 417)		Total (N = 766)		P-value
Variables	n	%	n	%	N	%	P-value
Knowledge on FBD^b symptoms							0.56
Low knowledge	224	62.4	251	60.2	475	61.2
High knowledge	135	37.6	166	39.8	301	38.8
Knowledge on mode of transmission of FBD^b							< 0.01
Low knowledge	249	69.4	248	59.5	497	64.0
High knowledge	110	30.6	169	40.5	279	36.0
Knowledge on hand washing							0.02
Low knowledge	145	40.4	133	31.9	278	35.8
High knowledge	214	59.6	284	68.1	498	64.2
Knowledge on vectors of FBD^b							0.88
Low knowledge	133	37.0	157	37.6	290	37.4
High knowledge	226	63.0	260	62.4	486	62.6
Knowledge on food storage							0.70
Low knowledge	120	33.4	133	31.9	253	32.6
High knowledge	239	66.6	284	68.1	523	67.4
Knowledge on environmental sanitation							1.00
Low knowledge	21	5.8	24	5.8	45	5.8
High knowledge	338	94.2	393	94.2	731	94.2
Knowledge on reheating of food							0.18
Low knowledge	115	32.0	115	27.6	230	29.6
High knowledge	244	68.0	302	72.4	546	70.4
Knowledge on artificial food colors							0.37
Low knowledge	35	9.7	33	7.9	68	8.8
High knowledge	324	90.3	384	92.1	708	91.2
Knowledge on frozen food							0.15
Low knowledge	185	51.5	237	56.8	422	54.4
High knowledge	174	48.5	180	43.2	354	45.6
Total knowledge score on food safety information							0.61
Low knowledge	159	44.3	177	42.4	336	43.3
High knowledge	200	55.7	240	57.6	440	56.7
Consumption of FDA^a prohibited foods							0.15
No	109	30.4	148	35.5	257	33.1
Yes	250	69.6	269	64.5	519	66.9

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