![]() ![]() Transforming the workforce for children birth through age 8: A unifying foundation., 2015) and play an essential part as role models children to develop healthy eating behaviors. ECE providers influence children's behaviors and classroom environment, ( National Research Council. In the U.S., approximately 60% of children under the age of 5 years attend some form of non-parental childcare, ( Cui and Natzke, 2019) indicating the Early Care and Education (ECE) environment could be an essential venue to foster healthy behaviors in young children.ĮCE centers rely on ECE providers to promote healthy nutrition behaviors and school readiness among children aged 0 to 5 years from low-income households ( U.S Department of Health Human Services, 2020). 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. 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. Process evaluation showed that 89.9% of the intervention group completed all online module, and 82.9% attended all of wellness session groups. 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). Pre-to-post intervention demonstrated no significant within-or-between-group changes in the AHEI-2010 diet quality scores. At baseline, 31.5% of ECE providers were food insecure. A total of 186 ECE providers completed the post-intervention surveys (retention rate: 86.1%). ![]() ![]() 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 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. 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. Create Healthy Futures is a self-paced, web-based intervention on improving healthy eating behaviors among Early Care and Education (ECE) providers. ![]()
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