Child Care Wellness Study on Nutrition and Physical Activity (CCWS)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: NAP-SACC Child Care Wellness Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01921842

07-1861

R40MC08727 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is an evaluation of a nutrition and physical activity intervention in child care centers in NC, CA, and CT.

Full description

The broad, long term goal is to develop a reproducible nutrition and physical activity intervention which utilizes child care consultant nutrition specialists to reduce the risk of overweight among children in regulated out-of-home child care. The objectives are:

1. To train Child Care Health consultants (CCHCs) to become specialists in nutrition consultation in child care such that they will increase their daily consultation activities on nutrition, physical activity, and childhood overweight,
2. To increase child care staff and parental knowledge of and positive attitudes toward providing healthy foods, appropriate portions of foods, and appropriate levels of physical activity for young children in out-of-home child care centers.,
3. To strengthen child care center policies, procedures, practices and behaviors, regarding providing healthy foods, appropriate portions of foods, and appropriate levels of physical activity for young children in out-of-home child care centers, and
4. To improve dietary intake and levels of physical activity, and to prevent increases in overweight and the risk of overweight as determined by body mass indexes among children in out-of-home child care centers.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• In each of the three geographical areas (NC, CA, CT), two pairs of community-based child care centers in urban areas with English-speaking directors, kitchens, and with 50-60 children between the ages of 2 and 5 years, 35% of whom are eligible for subsidy.

Exclusion criteria

• If the randomly selected child care center has an open case of child abuse or neglect.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Nutrition and Physical Activity Training

Experimental group

Description:

NAP-SACC Child Care Wellness program administered in year 1 of study

Treatment:

Behavioral: NAP-SACC Child Care Wellness Program

Delayed Intervention Group

Other group

Description:

NAP-SACC Child Care Wellness Program is administered in year 2 of study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: NAP-SACC Child Care Wellness Program