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“My wellbeing-their wellbeing “– An eHealth intervention for managing obesity in early care and education: Protocol for the Go NAPSACC Cares cluster randomized control trial

PLOS ONE · 14 authors, 4 centres

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Centers will be randomly assigned to either standard Go NAPSACC or Go NAPSACC+ Staff Wellness.

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Centers will be randomly assigned to either standard Go NAPSACC or Go NAPSACC+ Staff Wellness. The primary aim is to assess the intervention's impact on children's dietary intake and physical activity behaviors at 6 months, with secondary aims comparing effects on ECE workers' diet quality and physical activity at 6 and 12 months and on centers' implementation of healthy weight practices. This is a protocol paper reporting no results; the trial is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05656807). Limitations noted by the authors of the existing literature include small sample sizes, lack of control groups, and absence of objective measures in prior worker-focused studies.

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PMC10328321

“My wellbeing-their wellbeing “– An eHealth intervention for managing obesity in early care and education: Protocol for the Go NAPSACC Cares cluster randomized control trial

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Abstract Background To fully leverage the potential of the early care and education (ECE) setting for childhood obesity prevention, initiatives must not intervene solely at the organizational level, but rather they should also address the health needs of the ECE workers. Workers suffer disproportionately high rates of obesity, and have reported low confidence in modeling and promoting healthy eating and activity behaviors. However, information regarding the effectiveness of improving ECE workers’ health behaviors or whether such improvements elicit meaningful change in the ECE environment and/or the children in their care is limited. Method The proposed study will integrate a staff wellness intervention into a nationally recognized, ECE obesity prevention initiative (Go NAPSACC). Go NAPSACC+ Staff Wellness program will be assessed using a clustered randomized controlled trial including 84 ECE centers, 168 workers, and 672 2–5-year-old children. Centers will be randomly assigned to 1) standard “Go NAPSACC” or 2) Go NAPSACC+ Staff Wellness. Outcome measures will assess impact on dietary intake and PA behaviors of 2-5-year-old children at 6 months (primary aim) and 12 months. Secondarily, we will compare the impact of the intervention on centers’ implementation of healthy weight practices and the effect on ECE workers’ diet quality and PA at 6- and 12 months. Discussion This trial expects to increase our understanding of how ECE worker’s personal health behaviors impact the health behaviors of the children in their care and the ECE environment. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05656807 , registered on 19 December 2022. Protocol version 1.0, 22 March 2023.

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Erik A Willis, Regan Burney, Derek Hales et al.. “My wellbeing-their wellbeing “– An eHealth intervention for managing obesity in early care and education: Protocol for the Go NAPSACC Cares cluster randomized control trial. PLOS ONE. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286912

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14 · 4 CENTRES

Erik A Willis, Regan Burney, Derek Hales, LeAndra O Ilugbusi, Deborah F Tate, Brooke Nezami, Emily C Clarke, Renee H Moore, Emma Mathews, Meredith Thompson, Brittany Beckelheimer, Dianne S Ward, Lucinda Shen, Lucinda Shen

1Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
2Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
4Public Library of Science, UNITED KINGDOM