Obesity prevention practices in early care and education settings: an adaptive implementation trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the potential for Early Care and Education (ECE) settings to promote healthy habits, a gap exists between current practices and evidence-based practices (EBPs) for obesity prevention in childhood.

Methods

We will use an enhanced non-responder trial design to determine the effectiveness and incremental cost-effectiveness of an adaptive implementation strategy for Together, We Inspire Smart Eating (WISE), while examining moderators and mediators of the strategy effect. WISE is a curriculum that aims to increase children's intake of carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables through four evidence-based practices in the early care and education setting. In this trial, we will randomize sites that do not respond to low-intensity strategies to either (a) continue rec

SUBMITTER: Swindle T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932138 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature