Family child care home providers' self-reported nutrition and physical activity practices, self-efficacy, barriers and knowledge: baseline findings from happy healthy homes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe nutrition and physical activity practices, nutrition self-efficacy and barriers and food programme knowledge within Family Child Care Homes (FCCH) and differences by staffing.

Design

Baseline, cross-sectional analyses of the Happy Healthy Homes randomised trial (NCT03560050).

Setting

FCCH in Oklahoma, USA.

Participants

FCCH providers (n 49, 100 % women, 30·6 % Non-Hispanic Black, 2·0 % Hispanic, 4·1 % American Indian/Alaska Native, 51·0 % Non-Hispanic white, 44·2 ± 14·2 years of age. 53·1 % had additional staff) self-reported nutrition and physical activity practices and policies, nutrition self-efficacy and barriers and food programme knowledge. Differences between providers with and without additional staff were adjusted for multiple

SUBMITTER: Sisson SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887682 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature