Relationship between teacher fidelity to an early childhood obesity prevention program and the Child care center nutrition and physical activity environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child care centers (CCC) can be strategic settings to establish healthy lifestyle behaviors through obesity prevention programs. Fidelity to the implementation of such programs is a vital evaluation component, but is often not measured. This study assessed CCC teacher fidelity to the implementation of "Healthy Caregivers, Healthy Children (HC2)", a CCC-based obesity prevention intervention.

Methods

CCCs serving low-resource, ethnically diverse families with ≥ 50 children ages 2-to-5 years old that were randomized to the HC2 intervention and that had teacher fidelity data collected (n = 9 CCC) were included in this analysis. The Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation (EPAO) tool assessed the CCC nutrition and physical activity (PA) environment at the beg

SUBMITTER: Rana P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9574711 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature