Educational intervention enhances consumers' readiness to adopt food thermometer use when cooking small cuts of meat: An application of the transtheoretical model

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1874-1883

  Takeuchi, Masami T ^a   Edlefsen, Miriam ^a   McCurdy, Sandra M ^b   Hillers, Virginia N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOKING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; STANDARD; THERMOMETER; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; COOKERY; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 26044456363     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-68.9.1874     Document Type: Article

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