Table 3.
Wellness Child Care Assessment Tool (WellCCAT) scores of written child-care policies (n 114 policies for 131 services) among a sample of licensed child-care services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato regions of New Zealand, 2014
| Comprehensiveness scores | Strength scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean† | sd | Range | Mean† | sd | Range | |
| WellCCAT domain‡ | ||||||
| Nutrition education | 35·3 | 27·2 | 0–100 | 22·0 | 24·0 | 0–83 |
| Nutrition standards | 31·2 | 22·1 | 0–83 | 6·5 | 10·8 | 0–47 |
| Promoting healthy eating | 22·7 | 13·2 | 0–76 | 11·1 | 9·3 | 0–44 |
| Physical activity | 17·3 | 21·1 | 0–69 | 10·9 | 14·0 | 0–54 |
| Communication and evaluation | 17·3 | 9·3 | 0–40 | 6·0 | 8·1 | 0–30 |
| Total score across all domains | 24·7 | 13·4 | 3–64 | 11·3 | 8·3 | 0–39 |
| Type of child-care service§ | ||||||
| Private day-care centre (n 41) | 27·7 | 14·1 | 3–60 | 10·7 | 6·9 | 0–24 |
| Community day-care centre (n 41) | 26·1 | 13·5 | 4–64 | 13·8 | 9·1 | 0–39 |
| Kindergarten (n 32) | 27·1 | 10·0 | 8–44 | 13·3 | 7·6 | 1–33 |
| Playcentre (n 16) | 9·7* | 6·8 | 3–30 | 2·5* | 3·7 | 0–13 |
| Neighbourhood deprivation of child-care service|| | ||||||
| Low (NZDep2006 deciles 1–3; n 24) | 23·2 | 12·5 | 3–43 | 12·0 | 10·2 | 0–33 |
| Medium (NZDep2006 deciles 4–7; n 66) | 23·5 | 12·9 | 3–49 | 10·1 | 7·3 | 0–26 |
| High (NZDep2006 deciles 8–10; n 40) | 28·0 | 14·6 | 4–64 | 12·9 | 8·3 | 0–39 |
*Statistically significant difference in mean score by type of child-care service, ANOVA (P<0·05).
Total mean score across all domains.
More information on the WellCCAT domains is available in the online supplementary material
See Table 2 for more information on the characteristics of different service types.
The New Zealand Index of Neighbourhood Deprivation (NZDep2006) is a composite measure of socio-economic indicators from neighbourhood areas in the 2006 census( 24 ). Assigned based on the census meshblock (geographical location) of the child-care service.