Evaluation of the Web-Based OutsidePlay-ECE Intervention to Influence Early Childhood Educators' Attitudes and Supportive Behaviors Toward Outdoor Play: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Outdoor play is critical to children's healthy development and well-being. Early learning and childcare centers (ELCCs) are important venues for increasing children's outdoor play opportunities, and early childhood educators' (ECE) perception of outdoor play can be a major barrier to outdoor play. The OutsidePlay-ECE risk-reframing intervention is a fully automated and open access web-based intervention to reframe ECEs' perceptions of the importance of outdoor play and risk in play and to promote a change in their practice in supporting it in ELCC settings. We grounded the intervention in social cognitive theory and behavior change techniques.

Objective

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the OutsidePlay-ECE web-based risk-reframing intervent

SUBMITTER: Brussoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9233267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature