Comparison between the Healthy Start-Départ Santé online and in-person training of childcare educators to improve healthy eating and physical activity practices and knowledge of physical activity and fundamental movement skills: A controlled trial

Preventive Medicine Reports

Mathieu Bélanger¹  Stephanie Ward²  Anne Leis³ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Université de Moncton, École des Sciences des Aliments, de Nutrition et d’études Familiales, Pavillon Jacqueline-Bouchard, 51, Avenue Antonine-Maillet, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada;Université de Sherbrooke, Centre de Formation Médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, Pavillon J.-Raymond Frenette, 18, rue des Aboiteaux, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada;

关键词: Healthy eating;    Physical activity;    Childcare center;    Educator;    Online intervention;   

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【 摘 要 】

Online training may be a more effective and sustainable way to reach educators in early childcare centres (ECCs). This study compared the effectiveness of an online version of the Healthy Start-Départ Santé (HSDS) training to the traditional in-person version of the training as well as to the usual practice condition on ECC educators’ healthy eating (HE) and physical activity (PA) practices and knowledge of PA and fundamental movement skills (FMS). Seventy-eight ECCs were randomly chosen across the provinces of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, Canada and were allocated to either the online training, the in-person training or the usual practice groups between 2013 and 2018. Educators in each group completed a self-administered questionnaire before and nine months after the intervention, which included questions regarding their HE and PA practices in the ECC, as well as their knowledge of children’s FMS and PA. Group differences were assessed with mixed-effect models. Compared to educators in the usual practice group, educators in the online training group reported a greater improvement in scores for HE and PA practices (p = 0.03 and 0.03, respectively), but change for educators in the in-person training group were not different (p = 0.8 and 0.56, respectively). The rate of improvement in FMS and PA knowledge did not differ across all three groups (p = 0.9). The HSDS online training is an effective method of improving educators’ HE and PA practices in ECCs.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02375490)

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