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Two qualitative studies, Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Home-Based Care: What Hispanic Providers Have to Say and Latino Family Childcare Providers’ Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study, explored the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of Latino family child care providers regarding nutrition, physical activity, sedentary time, and communication with parents.
Findings from Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Home-Based Care: What Hispanic Providers Have to Say suggest that providers may have knowledge regarding healthy eating and physical activity; however, they lack practical application of this knowledge into everyday activities.
Findings from Latino Family Childcare Providers’ Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study suggest that providers are knowledgeable about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity; however are more vested in promoting healthy eating.
Findings from both studies suggest that providers think parents negatively influence the children’s behavior and they would like better communication strategies and resources to work with and engage parents.
Family child care homes are an important environment to implement obesity prevention interventions for Latino children for three reasons: (1) children in family child care homes are more obese than children in child care centers; (2) family child care homes have less stringent regulations than child care centers; and (3) child care impacts children’s healthy eating and physical activity on a daily basis.
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