Family child care home providers' perceived difficulty in serving vegetables to children: findings from a multi-method study.

ABSTRACT: The study aims to identify family child care home (FCCH) setting- and environment-level predictors related to providers' perceived difficulty in implementing the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) recommendations for serving vegetables to children. This was a cross-sectional study, which used a validated paper-based survey with a multi-method data analysis approach. Participants were licenced FCCH providers (N = 943) in Nebraska, who were predominantly White (94%), non-Hispanic (97%), CACFP-participants (89%), and in urban areas (64%). Reflective latent variable modelling was conducted in Mplus to explore associations between dependent variable and predictors. Dependent variable was providers' perceived difficulty to implement CACFP recommendations for serving vegetables. Pre

SUBMITTER: Hasnin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867830 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature