An implementation intervention to encourage healthy eating in centre-based child-care services
Impact of the Good for Kids Good for Life programme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15095034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Bell (0000-0003-2731-9858, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author), A Colin Bell, Lynda Davies (0000-0002-9519-4279, Hunter New England Local Health District), Meghan Finch (0000-0002-3698-7551, Hunter New England Local Health District), Luke Wolfenden (0000-0002-6178-3868, University of Newcastle Australia), J Lynn Francis (0009-0003-9617-9788), Rachel Sutherland (0000-0003-0470-7663, University of Newcastle Australia), John Wiggers (0000-0001-6361-9685, University of Newcastle Australia) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1610-1619 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Health Nutrition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1368980013003364 |
| PMID | 24477181 |
| OpenAlex | W2133375545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 24 |
Objective To determine the impact of an implementation intervention designed to introduce policies and practices supportive of healthy eating in centre-based child-care services. Intervention strategies included staff training, resources, incentives, follow-up support, and performance monitoring and feedback. Design A quasi-experimental design was used to assess change over 20 months in healthy eating policy and practice in intervention and comparison child-care services. Setting The Hunter New England (HNE) region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Subjects All centre-based child-care services ( n 287) in the intervention region (HNE) were invited and 240 (91 % response rate) participated. Two hundred and ninety-six services in the rest of NSW were randomly selected as a comparison region and 191 participated (76 % response rate). A sub-analysis was conducted on those services that provided children food ( n 196 at baseline and n 190 at follow-up). Ninety-six provided menus for analysis at baseline (HNE, n 36; NSW, n 50) and 102 provided menus at follow-up (HNE, n 50; NSW, n 52). Results Services in the intervention region were significantly more likely to provide only plain milk and water for children ( P = 0·018) and to engage parents in nutrition policy or programmes ( P = 0·002). They were also more likely ( P = 0·056) to have nutrition policy on home packed food. In addition, menus of services that provided lunch were significantly more likely to comply with healthy eating guidelines for sweetened drinks ( P P P = 0·01). Conclusions An implementation intervention was able to modify policy and practice in a large number of child-care services so that they were more supportive of healthy eating
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |