Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Home-Based Child Care: What Hispanic Providers Have to Say
| Autor: | Patricia Markham Risica, Noereem Z. Mena, Alison Tovar, Kim M. Gans, Gemma Gorham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Pediatric Obesity Family child care genetic structures Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism media_common.quotation_subject Rudd Articles Psychological intervention Health Promotion Motor Activity Social Environment Nutrition Policy Food Preferences Nursing Perception Humans Medicine Child Care Child Qualitative Research media_common Cultural Characteristics Nutrition and Dietetics Parenting business.industry Rhode Island Social environment Feeding Behavior Hispanic or Latino Focus Groups Focus group Health promotion Content analysis Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Energy Intake business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Childhood Obesity. 11:521-529 |
| ISSN: | 2153-2176 2153-2168 |
| Popis: | It is important to understand the perceptions and beliefs of family child care providers (FCCPs) regarding which factors influence children's physical activity (PA), screen-time (ST), and dietary behaviors in order to develop and implement appropriate obesity prevention interventions. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the aforementioned perceptions and beliefs of FCCPs in Rhode Island.Four focus groups (n = 30) were held with FCCPs. Providers were female, Hispanic, and Spanish speaking. Providers were asked about different aspects of feeding, PA, and ST behaviors. Themes were coded using NVivo10 (QSR International Pty Ltd, Doncaster, Victoria, Australia). Content analysis was used to analyze final themes.Providers understood the importance of providing opportunities for healthy eating and PA for the children they cared for, but there was room for improvement, especially with regard to certain feeding and ST practices. Several barriers were evident, including the lack of physical infrastructure for PA, cultural beliefs and practices related to child feeding, and difficulties working with parents to provide consistent messages across environments.Given that FCCPs are aware of the importance of healthy eating and PA, there is a need to address the specific barriers they face, and operationalize some of their knowledge into practical everyday actions. This formative work will inform the development of a culturally relevant, multicomponent intervention for ethnically diverse FCCPs to improve the food and PA environments of their homes, which should, in turn, improve the dietary, PA, and ST behaviors of the 2- to 5-year-old children they care for. |
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