Assessing health disparities in foods and beverages served in early care and education programs across Georgia.
Summary: Background: Obesity disproportionately impacts children who are Black and Hispanic, those who live in rural communities and those who have low income. Predisposition to obesity early in life is profoundly impacted by feeding habits during the preschool years. The early care and education (E...
| Publicado en: | Pediatric Obesity Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=151798958&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 151798958 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 20476302 ETV7 jtl: Pediatric Obesity issn: 20476302 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2021 vid: 16 iid: 9 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 151798958 149305105 151798958 151798958 10.1111/ijpo.12787 151798958 ppf: 1 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Assessing health disparities in foods and beverages served in early care and education programs across Georgia. aug: au: Kear, Kathryn Stotz, Sarah Love, Kim Cox, Ginnefer O. Birch, Leann L. Cotwright, Caree J. affil: Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Athens Georgia, USA sug: subj: Health Status Disparities Evaluation Food and Beverages Early Childhood Intervention Georgia Child Day Care Georgia Socioeconomic Factors Human Georgia Logistic Regression Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Odds Ratio Surveys Descriptive Statistics Income Race Factors Geographic Factors ab: Summary: Background: Obesity disproportionately impacts children who are Black and Hispanic, those who live in rural communities and those who have low income. Predisposition to obesity early in life is profoundly impacted by feeding habits during the preschool years. The early care and education (ECE) setting impacts children's health by providing daily meals. Objective: The goal of this study was to identify whether or not health disparities in foods and beverages served in ECE programs in Georgia exist based on socioeconomic, demographic and geographic variables. Methods: A random sample was drawn from 3054 ECE programs across the state of Georgia. The likelihood of serving specific foods and beverages in ECE programs in the previous day was measured. Percentages and frequencies, logistic regressions, Spearman's rho and Odds ratio tests determined outcomes. Results: A total of 974 surveys were returned. Data were stratified based on the income level of the participant families, race of enrolled children and geographic location of the ECE program. Disparities existed between programs based on race of enrolled children and geographic location. For example, although the odds of providing sweets increased by 0.6% as the percentage of Black children enrolled increased, the provision of healthier foods, such as the odds of providing fruits (P =.001), vegetables (P =.001) and protein (P =.001) also increased. However, after results were adjusted for covariates findings did not remain significant. Conclusions: Future research focused on evaluating the foods and beverages provided in ECE programs and the relationship of how income, race and location are related may provide further understanding about the disproportionate childhood obesity rates in America. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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