Table 4.
Association between childcare food practices and children’s dietary intake (N = 398).
| Children’s Dietary Intake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childcare food practice | Fruit (g) | Vegetables (g) | Sweet snacks (g) | Sweet drinks (mL) |
| B (p) | B (p) | B (p) | B (p) | |
| Child involvement in food preparation | a | a | −1.85 (0.041) | a |
| Staff explains food preparation | 10.16 (0.004) | a | a | a |
| Stimulation to eat | a | 6.11 (0.007) | a | a |
| Giving food without asking | a | a | −3.86 (0.037) | a |
| Staff eats together with children | a | a | 2.30 (0.032) | −35.17 (0.088) |
Notes: Results of the backward multilevel regression analyses, adjusting for child gender and age, dietician, and the nesting of children within childcare centers. B = Regression coefficient, p = p-value. The following practices were not significantly associated with any of the dietary intake variables: Encouragement of new foods, Accepting individual intake differences, Staff eats the same food as the children, Frequency staff consumes unhealthy food, Instrumental feeding and Talking about healthy food. a Variable deleted from final model because the p-value was >0.10.