Some of the Factors Affecting the Incidence of Food poisoning Among the Pilgrims Saudis and Non-Saudis in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

(Maria demanded Zahrani)

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Abstract

For increasing the number of cases of poisoning that occurs between some of the pilgrims, especially in the summer season. The objective of the research is to identify some of the factors leading to the incidence of food poisoning and the nutrition and health awareness related to health and food safety. Data were collected through the distribution of identification by chance on a sample of pilgrims present in the squares of Foreign Affairs in out of side the Haram Al-Makki Al-Sharif during the period from 1430-1431 AH. The sample was divided into two parts: the Saudis (38%) and non-Saudis (62%) The survey showed a high level of nutritional awareness among Saudis and non-Saudis (65.8% , 68.5%), respectively, and increase the rate of non-Saudis (33.5%) as compared to Saudis (26.3%) than they have previously infected food poisoning during the performance of Umrah with non- significant differences between them. There were found a many of factors leading to infection food poisoning among the pilgrims, such as: sex, education , the incidence of chronic diseases and some nutritional practices such as not pay attention to hygiene and place of eating contaminated food; increased incidence among males than females, regardless of nationality, and also increased the rate of infection between the intermediate and high level of learning and with the low of food awareness. The Saudis and non-Saudis (18.4%, 30.4%) were not attention who are the clean of food place of eating. The majority to eat food that causes poisoning in the market and public places with differences statistically significant (p< 0.000), which emphasizes the importance of programs directed to the health and food safety to prevent food poisoning among the pilgrims by using several means, including educational multimedia and television.
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