Implementing the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Benchmarks for Nutrition Education for Children: Child-Care Providers’ Perspectives

Dev, Dipti A.; Stage, Virginia C.; Schober, Daniel J.; McBride, Brent A.; Kok, Car Mun; Ramsay, Samantha

doi:10.1016/j.jand.2017.07.001

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“…14,27 Prior research has established several perceived barriers to implementing healthy eating policies in ECE, including food costs, additional time needed to provide healthier foods, limited storage or facilities, and children's food preferences. [30][31][32][33][34][35][36] Researchers who evaluated healthy eating policies implemented in New York City, 11 Delaware, 14 and South Carolina 10 have reported varying levels of compli-ance. Overall, there is a dearth of research on the barriers, facilitators, and implementation of these policies in ECE.…”

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Barriers and Facilitators to Compliance with a State Healthy Eating Policy in Early Care and Education Centers

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“…They also discussed how they took personal ownership of HC2 by inserting the programme materials in their classroom at appropriate times and modifying it to fit their classroom needs when necessary. Similarly, these are common themes in obesity prevention programmes or policy implementation in CCCs (Dev, Carraway‐Stage, et al, ; Lyn et al, ).…”

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“…One key theme CCC providers discussed was how they observed the motivation of young children to learn about nutrition and specifically how their dietary intake directly impacted their body and organ functions. Similarly, Dev et al described how childcare providers were motivated to deliver nutrition education to children because it improves children's knowledge of healthy and unhealthy foods and encouraged children to try new foods (Dev et al, ). One novel finding in our study was that CCC providers perceived an improvement in cognitive development as a result of exposure to HC2 and thus healthier dietary intake and increased physical activity.…”

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Barriers and facilitators to obesity prevention dissemination and implementation efforts in the childcare centre setting from the provider perspective

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Background It has been established that the childcare centre (CCC) is a setting suitable for healthy weight promotion efforts. As the field advances, it is important to understand the barriers and facilitators to early childhood obesity prevention implementation and dissemination efforts from the CCC providers' perspective. This is especially true among those who serve low‐income and diverse populations to maximize scalability success. Methods Focus groups were held in English or Spanish with CCC providers across six CCCs who implemented healthy caregivers–healthy children (HC2), an early childhood healthy weight promotion programme targeting 2‐ to 5‐year‐olds from low‐resource backgrounds. Centres represented both rural and urban environments. Focus groups were audio recorded, transcribed, and coded. A thematic analysis that combined a deductive and inductive approach was conducted. Codes were analysed using Dedoose to identify general themes and subthemes. Results CCC providers stated that (a) children understood the nutritional benefits of healthy foods; (b) improved cognitive development as a result of HC2; (c) parents were barriers to HC2 implementation efforts, particularly in terms of cooperative healthy lifestyle efforts; and (d) modelling healthy eating and making healthy CCC environmental changes facilitated HC2 implementation. Overall, HC2 was well received by CCC teachers, and they shared creative classroom HC2 adaptions and improvements. Conclusions CCC providers can provide valuable insight to guide early childhood healthy weight promotion programme dissemination and implementation efforts. Although they value the implementation of HC2 programme in their classroom settings, they perceive parents as somewhat obstructive. This information is critical to informing future healthy weight promotion efforts in this setting, especially among low‐resource families. It is important to continue to include the CCC provider viewpoint in future obesity prevention efforts to maximize scalability and sustainability efforts.

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“…Go NAP SACC is centered on meeting best practices related to children's nutrition, which may contribute to providers being more likely to choose motivators related to the desire to learn about nutrition education and to help children develop healthy eating habits. 25,26 Furthermore, participation in Go NAP SACC is entirely voluntary; thus, those who have completed the process are likely highly motivated to improve their quality of care to promote children's healthy eating and obesity prevention.…”

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Contextual Factors Influence Professional Development Attendance Among Child Care Providers in Nebraska

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Objective: To examine contextual factors that may influence child care providers' motivators for attending nutrition-related training and their preferences and barriers to attending professional development training. Design: Cross-sectional survey completed between January and April 2017. Setting: Licensed child care programs (n = 1,490) across urban and rural Nebraska. Participants: Child care center directors (n = 336) and family child care home providers (n = 1,154). Main Outcome Measures: Motivators, preferences, and barriers of child care providers for attending professional development. Analysis: Descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results: Top motivators for attending nutrition-related training included meeting licensure requirements and improving job performance. Child care providers most commonly selected preferences for receiving training included in-person and online delivery. Top barriers to obtaining training were schedule conflicts, accessibility, and cost. Child care centers and participants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment in Child Care (Go NAP SACC) were more likely to be motivated by licensure requirements. Rural providers were also more likely to report barriers such as inability to travel and limited access to training. Results revealed that child care type, geographic location, CACFP and Go NAP SACC participation can influence child care providers' motivators, preferences, and barriers to attending training. Conclusions and Implications: Results highlight the importance of offering professional development training that best fits child care providers' needs and preferences.

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Implementing the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Benchmarks for Nutrition Education for Children: Child-Care Providers’ Perspectives

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Barriers and Facilitators to Compliance with a State Healthy Eating Policy in Early Care and Education Centers

Barriers and Facilitators to Compliance with a State Healthy Eating Policy in Early Care and Education Centers

Barriers and facilitators to obesity prevention dissemination and implementation efforts in the childcare centre setting from the provider perspective

Contextual Factors Influence Professional Development Attendance Among Child Care Providers in Nebraska

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