Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care Centers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 18
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
研究概览
简要总结
The study is an evaluation of a nutrition and physical activity intervention in child care centers in NC, CA, and CT.
详细描述
The broad, long term goal is to develop a reproducible nutrition and physical activity intervention which utilizes child care consultant nutrition specialists to reduce the risk of overweight among children in regulated out-of-home child care. The objectives are:
- To train Child Care Health consultants (CCHCs) to become specialists in nutrition consultation in child care such that they will increase their daily consultation activities on nutrition, physical activity, and childhood overweight,
- To increase child care staff and parental knowledge of and positive attitudes toward providing healthy foods, appropriate portions of foods, and appropriate levels of physical activity for young children in out-of-home child care centers.,
- To strengthen child care center policies, procedures, practices and behaviors, regarding providing healthy foods, appropriate portions of foods, and appropriate levels of physical activity for young children in out-of-home child care centers, and
- To improve dietary intake and levels of physical activity, and to prevent increases in overweight and the risk of overweight as determined by body mass indexes among children in out-of-home child care centers.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 5 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •In each of the three geographical areas (NC, CA, CT), two pairs of community-based child care centers in urban areas with English-speaking directors, kitchens, and with 50-60 children between the ages of 2 and 5 years, 35% of whom are eligible for subsidy.
排除标准
- •If the randomly selected child care center has an open case of child abuse or neglect.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
时间窗: Baseline, Year 1, Year 2
Determine if the use of a Nurse Child Care Health Consultant changes nutrition and physical activity policies at child care centers using criteria based on the national standards identified from resources such as NAEYC accreditation guidelines, Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) policies and requirements, and the joint APHA/AAP publication Caring for our Children (American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association \& National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, 2002; 1992). If written policies were present, they were compared to the gold-standard criteria from the national resource material and assigned a rating of either none (no written policies), poor (written policies fail to meet either state regulatory criteria or national standards), adequate (meets state regulatory criteria but not all of the national standards), or excellent (meets all of the national criteria present).
次要结局
- Change in Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviors(Baseline, Year 1, Year 2)