Types of kindergarten and their relationship with parental and children's socio-demographic characteristics in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: In Danish outdoor kindergartens, children are spending most of the day outdoors often in forests or similar nature environments. These children are assumed to be healthier than children attending conventional kindergartens, however, factors related to choosing a specific type of kindergarten may explain the differences. To better understand this, we aimed to investigate parents reasons for choosing either outdoor or conventional kindergartens based on a mixed-method participatory Concept Mapping approach, and further if parental socio-demographics and early child characteristics differed prior to enrolling children to either type of kindergarten using a cohort register-based approach. Parents of children attending outdoor kindergartens (n = 23) weighed reasons such as "physical setting, ou

SUBMITTER: Specht IO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358886 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature