| Summary: | Background: There is no awareness and or knowledge about the food
manufacturers to use dangerous chemicals in food stuffs resulted in levels are
street food safety of school children that the lower negative impact on the health
of school children.
Objectives: This study aims to analyze and describe the risk factors (level of
education, knowledge, attitudes and practices) associated with street food of
Elementary School children in South Tegal subdistrict of hazardous chemicals
(formalin, borax and rhodamine B).
Methods: This study uses observational research with cross sectional approach.
Object of study is 46 merchant sidewalk street food of Elementary School
children in the District of South Tegal and the sample is street food of school
children. The data analyse done with the statistical test of univariable, bivariable
with fisher exact and multivariable with regresi exact logistic at p=0,05.
Results: As many of 6.52% street food of school children in South Tegal sub
districts is not safe because they contain harmful chemicals. There are three
variables that have a significant relationship with street food safety of school
children from harmful chemicals that is knowledge (p =0.011), attitude (p =0.024)
and practice(p=0.006). Variable levels of education did not have a significant
relationship with street food safety of school children of hazardous chemicals (p
=0.585).
Conclussion: The persistence of the harmful chemicals in street food of
Elementary School children that were found in the Southern Tegal Subdistrict.
Based on bivariable analyse: there is not relationship between the level of
education and the street food safety of school children, there is relationship
between knowledge and the street food safety of school children, there is
relationship between attitudes and the street food safety of school children and
there is relationship between practices and the street food safety of school
children. Base on multivariable analyse: the relationship between risk factors and
the street food safety of School Children is meaningless, but it can be determined
that the practices and the street food safety of school children is the most
dominant the relationship with the ratio ods 2,837.
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