The influence of child care center environment on children's physical activity

托儿所环境对儿童身体活动的影响

• 批准号: 7795787
• 负责人: Kristen Adele Copeland
• 金额: $ 13.4万
• 依托单位: CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7795787
• 关键词: 6 year old; Accounting; Adult; Affect; Age; Area; Attitude; Award; Behavior; Belief; Biostatistical Methods; Caregivers; Characteristics; Child; Child Care; Childhood; Commit; Coupled; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Development; Dietary Assessment; Effectiveness; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Epidemiology; Equipment; Fellowship; Focus Groups; Fostering; Funding; Gender; Goals; Group Interviews; Habits; Health; Health Benefit; Health Status; Home environment; Hour; Human; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Interview; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Link; Literature; Measurement; Measures; Mentors; Methods; Modeling; Motion; Muscle; Nursery Schools; Obesity; Observational Study; Outcome; Parenting Education; Physical Education; Physical activity; Physical environment; Play; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention approach; Public Health; Publishing; Race; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Running; Sampling; School-Age Population; Site; Solutions; Staff Attitudes; Surveys; Telephone; Temperature; Testing; Time; Training; Universities; Weather; Work; abstracting; base; career; college; demographics; design; environmental intervention; experience; field study; innovation; obesity in children; obesity prevention; prevent; programs; sedentary; sensor; sex; skills; success; teacher; theories; ward

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: Child care is an optimal environment to study influences on children's physical activity (PA) as 74% of US children aged 3-6 years are in child care, and the child-care center (CCC) attended explains 47% of the variance in measured PA, while child age, gender, race, BMI, and parent education combined explains only 3%. The central hypothesis of the application is that children's daily PA is affected by 3 aspects of the child-care environment: its facilities, policies, and staff. Only one published study has examined the effect of child-care policies on PA; none has examined all 3 aspects in concert. The specific aims are to: 1) conduct focus groups and interviews to determine caregivers' beliefs about salient CCC environmental characteristics that could influence children's PA, 2) determine the prevalence and variability of center characteristics thought to be related to children's PA through a telephone survey of all local CCCs and 3) identify the center facilities, policies and staff characteristics that are associated with more time spent in moderate and vigorous PA, while in the center and over the course of a 24-hour day. The 3rd aim will be accomplished through an observational study of 450 children attending 30 local CCCs (15 children per center). Each child will wear an accelerometer (motion sensor) for 24 hours to measure PA. The training objective of this career development award is for the Candidate to become an independent and externally funded investigator in child-care environmental factors related to children's PA and the prevention of childhood obesity. The Candidate's long term goal is to prevent childhood obesity through interventions that increase PA in child care. The training goals are to expand the Candidate's knowledge and skills in 1) environmental determinants of pediatric obesity 2) PA measurement and analysis 3) methods of dietary assessment 4) child-care policies and environment 5) relevant theories of human behavior and environment- al interventions, and 6) advanced epidemiological and biostatistical methods related to clustered design. The mentoring team consists of on- and off-site extramurally-funded researchers with complementary areas of expertise in PA measurement and analysis, built environment and policy assessment, epidemiology of clustered design, and CCC policy and environment. Relevance to Public Health: The proposed work is significant because childhood obesity is a critical health problem, increased PA is a potential solution and offers many other health benefits, and the child care setting offers an opportunity to reach 74% of children at a time-period in which environmental interventions may have a potentially strong and long-lasting impact. The proposed research, coupled with the developmental activities will provide the experience, knowledge, and skills necessary for the Candidate to launch and conduct an independent research career. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：儿童保育是研究对儿童体育锻炼（PA）影响的最佳环境，因为74％的3-6岁儿童在儿童保育中是在儿童保育中，而儿童保健中心（CCC）的出现解释了47％的儿童年龄，年龄，种族，种族，BMI和父母教育的差异，只有3％。该申请的中心假设是，儿童的日常PA受托儿环境的三个方面的影响：其设施，政策和员工。只有一项已发表的研究检查了托儿政策对PA的影响；没有人会检查所有三个方面。具体目的是：1）进行焦点小组和访谈，以确定护理人员对可能影响儿童PA的显着CCC环境特征的信念，2）确定中心特征的普遍性和可变性，被认为是通过对所有当地CCC的电话调查与所有当地CCC相关的中心调查和3）中心设施，政策和员工的特征，而与每天相关的过程中，则与PA相关的过程中，并且在中间和越来越多的时间内相关，并在中间和越来越多的时间内，并在整个过程中及时相关。第三个目标将通过对450名当地CCC（每个中心15名儿童）的儿童进行观察研究来实现。每个孩子都会佩戴加速度计（运动传感器）24小时以测量PA。该职业发展奖的培训目标是使候选人成为与儿童PA有关的儿童保育环境因素和预防儿童肥胖的独立和外部资助的调查员。候选人的长期目标是通过增加儿童保育的干预措施来防止儿童肥胖。培训目标是在1）儿科肥胖症的环境决定因素2）PA测量和分析3）饮食评估方法4）儿童保育政策和环境的方法5）人类行为和环境干预措施的相关理论，以及6）高级流行病学和生物统计学方法与与融合的设计相关。指导团队由由PA测量和分析，建立环境和政策评估，集群设计的流行病学以及CCC政策和环境的专业知识的互补领域组成的现场和现场外资助的研究人员组成。 与公共卫生的相关性：拟议的工作很重要，因为儿童肥胖是一个关键的健康问题，PA增加是一种潜在的解决方案，并提供了许多其他健康益处，而儿童保育环境可以在环境干预措施可能会产生潜在的强大且持久的影响力的时间到达74％的儿童。拟议的研究以及发展活动将为候选人启动和从事独立研究职业所必需的经验，知识和技能。 （抽象的结尾）