An exploration of constructs related to dissemination and implementation of an early childhood systems-level intervention.

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• Personal Author:
  Bergling E ; Farewell CV ; Maiurro E ; Puma J ; Quinlan J ; Shah P ; Webb J
• Description:
  Obesity and overweight in early childhood have detrimental impacts on children's health and development. Changing policy, system and environmental features focused on physical activity and healthy eating behaviors as part of health promotion interventions can play a key role in prevention strategies in early childhood education settings. These types of changes can have broad reach and are often sustained over time, which allows for impact on children who enter the early childhood education setting year after year. However, there is currently a gap between the generation of evidence for health promotion programs and their application into practice. This study used qualitative methods to evaluate intervention-, organizational- and individual-level factors within a dissemination and implementation framework that may be related to the implementation of a health-promoting intervention in early childhood education settings. Intervention-level factors, including feasibility and adaptability, organizational-level factors, including staff and leadership engagement, and individual-level factors, including attitudes, skills and knowledge, were identified as constructs that impacted the successful implementation of the intervention. These findings provide insight into core dissemination and implementation constructs that should be targeted by obesity prevention interventions in early childhood education settings to ensure maximum impact on sustainable behavior change. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Body Weight Diet Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Children; Obesity; Body weight; Health promotion; Physical exercise; Qualitative analysis; Behavior; Diet; Intervention effectiveness
• ISSN:
  0268-1153
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065772
• Citation:
  Health Educ Res 2020 Dec; 35(6):574-583
• Contact Point Address:
  Charlotte V Farewell, Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
• Email:
  charlotte.farewell@cuanschutz.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Health Education Research
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2919a9cba24002f10a584425cb005c8bcca8a9e0407d736e992d172a9dd8d1074fd7ee9d7399c42a2994294fedc9dbca49e88e831834465e5e4e0f9447487701
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248535/cdc_248535_DS1.pdf
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