Child Care Center Staff Readiness to Change in an Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The childcare center (CCC) setting has the potential to be a strong foundation that supports the introduction of sustainable healthy lifestyle behaviors to prevent childhood obesity. It is important to assess barriers and facilitators to healthy weight development initiatives via program evaluation, including measuring CCC staff readiness to change.

Objective

The overall goal of this study was to assess the readiness level over 1 school year among CCC staff who participated in "Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children" (HC2), a cluster randomized controlled trial that evaluated the effectiveness of a childhood obesity prevention program from 2015 to 2018 in 24 low-income, racially/ethnically diverse centers. A secondary outcome was to assess how a CCC's stage of readiness

SUBMITTER: Lebron CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11178244 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature