A cluster-randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a nutrition intervention on dietary behaviors among early care and education providers: The Create Healthy Futures study.
| Autor: | Mofleh D; Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, 1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030, USA., Chuang RJ; Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, 1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030, USA., Ranjit N; Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, 1616 Guadalupe St., Austin, TX, USA., Cox JN; Program Development Specialist, Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Penn State Extension Better Kid Care, State College, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, 323 Agricultural Administration Building University Park, PA 16802, USA., Anthony C; Penn State Extension Better Kid Care, State College, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, 323 Agricultural Administration Building University Park, PA 16802, USA., Sharma SV; Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Preventive medicine reports [Prev Med Rep] 2022 Jun 27; Vol. 28, pp. 101873. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 27 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101873 |
| Abstrakt: | Create Healthy Futures is a self-paced, web-based intervention on improving healthy eating behaviors among Early Care and Education (ECE) providers. We examined the impact of web-based Create Healthy Futures on diet quality measured by the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) 2010, dietary behaviors, and related psychosocial and environmental factors among ECE providers. A cluster randomized controlled trial (CRCT) was implemented with baseline surveys administered from October 2019-January 2020, intervention implementation from April-May 2020, and post-intervention from May 2020-August 2020. Centered-based ECE programs under the Pennsylvania Head Start Association (n = 12) were recruited and randomized to intervention (n = 5) or comparison (n = 7) groups. A total of 186 ECE providers completed the post-intervention surveys (retention rate: 86.1%). At baseline, 31.5% of ECE providers were food insecure. Pre-to-post intervention demonstrated no significant within-or-between-group changes in the AHEI-2010 diet quality scores. ECE providers in the intervention group reported a significant decrease from baseline to post-intervention in the number of days eating out (aMD = -0.8, CI:-1.6, -0.1, P = 0.03). Process evaluation showed that 89.9% of the intervention group completed all online module, and 82.9% attended all of wellness session groups. Although the Create Healthy Futures intervention did not improve ECE providers' diet quality and dietary behaviors, it confirmed critical needs to provide health support to ECE providers. Future studies should employ strategies that improve access to healthy foods and nutrition education, and address social determinants of health such as food insecurity to improve diet quality and health in ECE provider population. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2022 The Authors.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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