The baguncinha sandwich in the streets of Cuiaba, MT - Brazil: education intervention avaliation / O sanduíche baguncinha nas ruas de Cuiabá - MT: avaliação de intervenção educativa

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Introduction. The commerce of the baguncinha sandwich is typical of the metropolitan area of Cuiabá - MT. It is the source of income for many families and an alternative for dining out. The sanitary commission has structural and financial problems to over see the activity and the public health department recommends the qualification of who sells. Objective. Evaluate the effectiveness of an educative intervention in the social representation and behavioral of whom sells the baguncinha sandwich. Method. Thirty five places where the baguncinha was sold were investigated, divided into control and test groups, before and after the education intervention. It was evaluated the sanitary of the place and person manipulating the food through a check list also a microbiological analysis and internal temperature of the sandwich were done. Through a semi-structural interview data were collected about the social representation and behavioral of manipulation of the food. The speechs were treated with the collective subject discussion software and the behavioral by the parametric statistic. Results. The personal hygiene and the condition of the place were precarious. The hands of the food manipulators showed high levels of microbiological contamination. The sandwich were not fit for consumption 31,4% of the samples. The predominant problem was the wrong temperature of the storage of the ingredients. The safe firing was not reached in 84,2% of the baguncinha. The knowledge was considered medium to low. The ambulant were worried in keeping its clients and the main difficulty was the lack of infrastructure of the point of sell. As incentive to change its behavioral, a reduction of taxes and access to finance is predominant in the social representation of the ambulant. A feeling of discrimination the consumers presented themselves as anchorage. Conclusion. The training did not effective to change the representation and behavioral of the manipulators of the baguncinha sandwich. The social economical importance of the commerce in Cuiaba and the precarious sanitary conditions in the point of sell requires a harsh focalization policy and education intervention based on the Social Psychology. The Problem Solving Methodology could have some positive changes in the behavioral and in the workers representation, associated with other structural and regulation changes.

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social representation collective subject siscussion discurso do sujeito coletivo manipuladores de alimentos microbiological quality street food alimento de rua representação social qualidade microbiológica food handling

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