“…Respondents who had high self-efficacy scores in this study did not ignore food safety threats but responded by engaging in safe food handling behaviors. The perception that food safety risks exist, and individuals have the ability to control their own food safety, encourages safe food behaviors (Schafer et al, 1993). Knowledge alone does not change behaviors, but rather, as established in the social cognitive theory, the interaction between personal factors, behavioral patterns, and environmental events address behavioral change (Bandura, 2001;Winham et al, 2014).…”