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- Title
Nutrition Standards For Infants and Young Children can be Implemented by Family Child Care Home Providers.
- Authors
Ritchie, Lorrene D.; Keeton, Victoria; Lee, Danielle L.; Gurzo, Klara; Homel Vitale, Elyse; Au, Lauren E.; Alkon, Abbey
- Abstract
The study evaluated an educational intervention with family child care home (FCCH) providers to implement nutrition standards. A convenience sample of licensed California FCCH providers (n = 30) attended a 2-hour, in-person group training in English or Spanish on nutrition standards for infants and children aged 1 to 5 years. Provider surveys and researcher observations during meals/snacks were conducted pre- and 3 months post-intervention. Providers rated the training as excellent (average score of 4.9 on a scale of 1-5). Adherence, assessed by survey and observation and compared over time using paired t -tests, increased from an average of 36% pre-intervention to 44% post-intervention (P =.06) of providers (n = 12) for infant standards and from 59% to 68% (P <.001) of providers (n = 30) for child standards. One-third (39%) of providers rated infant standards and 19% of providers rated child standards as difficult to implement. Nutrition standards can be implemented by FCCH providers after an educational intervention; a larger study is warranted with a representative group of providers.
- Subjects
NUTRITION policy; CHILD care; INFANT health; SPANISH language; T-test (Statistics)
- Publication
Global Pediatric Health, 2021, p1
- ISSN
2333-794X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2333794X21989555