Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Language
English
Publication Date
8-1-2022
Journal
Preventive Medicine Reports
DOI
10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101873
PMID
35855920
PMCID
PMC9287792
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
June 2022
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
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,
Keywords
Child-care providers, Diet quality, Early childhood education, Head start programs, Nutrition
Recommended Citation
Mofleh, Dania; Chuang, Ru-Jye; Ranjit, Nalini; et al., "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" (2022). Faculty, Staff and Student Publications. 134.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/uthsph_docs/134