Perception and the use of food bank among university student in East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Food banks is one of the way to improve in food insecurities problem that occur since decades in all around the world. Food banks itself is made by non-profit organization to collect and distribute the food to people in need such as hunger people, people who faced natural disaster and low income family who cannot afford on buying big amount of food in one time as their food supply. During pandemic Covid-19 first spread in the world, many people affected in term of monthly income where their salaries were cut due to economic downturn in their company. University student are also affected during Covid-19 pandemic as some of student stuck in their campus and not allowed to leave campus area due to high spreadable of Covid-19 causes student short of food supply and university management make initiative by creating food banks in university for student but same issue regarding limited choice appeared. The university can take action to address this issue is to provide prepacked food where the food provided is home cooked and the amount of ingredient can be control. The sample size is 150 respondent of university student and was conducted in East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia which is in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. This study is based on three objectives, to study the knowledge of food banks, to identify the use of food bank and to investigate the perception of food bank among university students. Next, this study applying the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) model by using purposive sampling by distribution of questionnaire among university student in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. The results of this study are the knowledge of food banks and the use of food bank and student perception regarding food bank. There is significant relationship of knowledge, attitudes and practice of food banks towards perception of food bank among university student. In addition, the most selected food by university student are prepacked food.