Knowledge and Attitude of University of Kufa Collegians about Food Poisoning

Background: Diet contamination is a common and budding public health problem, in all countries. However, this problem has more impact on health and economy in developing countries than in developed countries but unswerving data is not available According to the World Health Organization the global incidence of illnesses is difficult to estimate, but it has been reported that in 2005 alone 1.8 million persons died from diarrheal diseases. Objective: The study aims to assess the students' knowledge and attitude of student of medical group faculties about food poisoning and to find out an association between student knowledge, attitude and their demographic characteristics. Methodology: The study is designed across –sectional study descriptive design carried out from October 2017- 20 jan18, Simple a random cluster sample collecting 200-student male and female in Kufa University. Result: The study samples are male (47%) and female (53%). The association between students' knowledge and socio-demographic characteristics the result indicated that significant relationship between attitude and stage of the study at p-value (0.05). Conclusion: Results of the study confirmed that most of the students ages ranged from 22-23 years and the majority of the study sample resident in city, family income that most of them fair sufficient income and most students living in Najaf, according the overall assessment of student knowledge about food poisoning more than half study sample with poor knowledge, the study concluded in overall assessment of Students' attitude about the food poisoning the majority the study sample with fair attitude. Recommendation: The study recommended; many study should be doing to covers a wide geographic area. conduct research to include a comparison between the private and public universities. university students should be educated by professional educators about food safety for them to get adequate nutrition. In this way, at the end of introduction of food safety which is one of the important steps of adequate nutrition from family to society, many health problems can be prevented.