Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care
Grantee: UNC Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator: Jonathan B Kotch
Project Number: R40MC08727
Project Date: 9/1/2007
Final Report
Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care Final Report (PDF)
Age group(s)
- Toddlerhood (13-35 months)
- Early Childhood (3-5 years)
Abstract
This proposal is to develop and test a training curriculum for child care health consultants (CCHCs) to create a new specialization in nutritional child care health consultation. This CCHC nutrition specialist would then implement an integrated nutrition and physical activity intervention in selected Bright Horizons child care centers in three sites across the country addressing children's diets and physical activity through changes in center policies and procedures and caregiver behavior. Although individual components of the proposed intervention have been attempted, this project proposes to combine an existing intervention (NAP-SACC) with enhanced outdoor environments which are specifically designed to be attractive learning environments which will encourage children to engage in more outdoor physical activity. The project will use objective research assistants to measure changes in policies and caregiver behaviors and observable changes in children's diets and physical activity.Publications
Listed is descending order by year published.
Alkon A, Crowley AA, Neelon SE, et al. Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children's body mass index. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:215.
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