Examining Differences in Achievement of Physical Activity Best Practices Between Urban and Rural Child Care Facilities by Age

Dinkel, Danae; Rech, John P.; Guo, Yage; Bice, Matthew R.; Hulse, Emily; Behrends, Donnia; Bürger, Christina; Dev, Dipti A.

doi:10.1007/s10643-021-01169-2

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“…While nearly 80% of the facilities reported exceeding best practices, significant differences were found for 18 out of the 45 best practices assessed, with urban facilities scoring higher than rural programs. For example, urban ECE professionals reported higher levels of interacting with infants during tummy time and more time spent outdoors with infants [24 ▪ ]. This study is important in highlighting the disparities among ECE programs in diverse locations and serving various age groups.…”

Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Recent studies illustrate environmental changes and the implementation of best practices are possible and effective across diverse settings [23 ▪ ,24 ▪ ,25,26 ▪▪ ,30]. Interventions increasingly use evidence-based tools to evaluate practices, environmental attributes, and policies of the ECE setting.…”

Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…ECE centers that participated in the intervention significantly improved nutrition and physical activity policies. In Nebraska, where >1000 ECE centers have received training from 30 trainers, researchers examined differences between urban and rural centers in meeting best practices by age-specific recommendations after completing the nutrition and physical activity trainings along with pre and postassessments in the evidence-based tool known as the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Go NAPSACC) [24 ▪ ]. The analysis included 425 ECE facilities that care for >15 000 children.…”

Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Purpose of reviewMost young children in the United States spend a significant portion of their time in early care and education (ECE) settings, commonly known as child care. This review highlights recent literature to support a continued focus and increased investment in embedding nutrition and physical activity standards within ECE settings and systems as a critical strategy for child obesity prevention. Pediatricians can support the promotion of these standards by understanding their local child care settings and sharing information with families about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity in early childhood.Recent findingsThe child care sector is fragile and complex, but quality improvement efforts have been successful in improving healthy eating and physical activity. Diverse child care providers, including family child care homes, can effectively embed nutrition and physical activity standards in their environments to promote healthy eating and active play, limit screen time, and support breastfeeding families. A small but growing body of evidence also demonstrates how these standards can be embedded in broader state systems to stimulate change across a state.SummaryThe literature demonstrates progress supporting diverse child care settings to embed high-impact standards into their environments. There is a small but growing body of evidence around systems-change efforts as well. Greater attention is needed on embedding physical activity standards in facilities, especially family child care homes, and state systems.

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Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Enabling Healthier Child Care Across Diverse Early Care and ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining Differences in Achievement of Physical Activity Best Practices Between Urban and Rural Child Care Facilities by Age

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