A Web-Based Risk-Reframing Intervention to Influence Early Childhood Educators' Attitudes and Supportive Behaviors Toward Outdoor Play: Protocol for the OutsidePlay Study Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early learning and childcare centers (ELCCs) can offer young children critical opportunities for quality outdoor play. There are multiple actual and perceived barriers to outdoor play at ELCCs, ranging from safety fears and lack of familiarity with supporting play outdoors to challenges around diverse perspectives on outdoor play among early childhood educators (ECEs), administrators, licensing officers, and parents.

Objective

Our study objective is to develop and evaluate a web-based intervention that influences ECEs' and ELCC administrators' perceptions and practices in support of children's outdoor play at ELCCs.

Methods

The development of the fully automated, open-access, web-based intervention was guided by the intervention mapping process. We first co

SUBMITTER: Brussoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663711 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature