Table 2.
Percentage of child care providers implementing best practices on serving foods and beverages and reporting implementation difficulty (difficult to do or potentially do) for each best practice by geographic location (urban, rural) and organizational structure (Child Care Center [CCC] vs. Family Child Care Home [FCCH]) (N = 1170).
| Urban(n = 591) |
Rural(n = 579) |
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| Implementation of Best Practices “Yes” | Implementation Difficulty “Difficult to do or potentially do” | Implementation of Best Practices “Yes” | Implementation Difficulty “Difficult to do or potentially do” | |||||||||||||
| Best Practices for Serving Foods and Beverages | CCC(n = 119)% | FCCH(n = 472)% | χ2 | CCC(n = 119)% | FCCH(n = 472)% | χ2 | CCC(n = 81)% | FCCH(n = 498)% | χ2 | CCC(n = 119)% | FCCH(n = 472)% | χ2 | ||||
| 1. Serve fruit at least one time/ day | 99.2 | 100 | 3.965 | †na | 4.5 | 1.8 | 2.938 | 100.0 | 99.8 | 0.163 | na | 2.5 | 4.4 | 0.594 | ||
| 2. Serve vegetables at least one time/day | 99.2 | 99.8 | 1.105 | na | 6.3 | 3.7 | 1.401 | 100.0 | 99.2 | 0.656 | na | 6.3 | 4.6 | 0.427 | ||
| 3. Prepare cooked vegetables without fat or butter | 98.3 | 93.8 | 3.601 | 10.0 | 8.1 | 0.389 | 93.7 | 95.4 | 0.421 | 15.2 | 10.8 | 1.285 | ||||
| 4. Serve skim or 1% milk | 96.6 | 98.5 | 1.815 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 2.322 | 97.5 | 99.8 | 6.922 | na | 1.3 | 3.8 | 1.286 | |||
| 5. Serve high fiber, whole grain at least once/ day | 89.9 | 87.4 | 0.546 | 26.8 | 26.4 | 0.007 | 87.7 | 84.3 | 0.605 | 34.2 | 28.9 | 0.885 | ||||
| 6. Serve only unflavored skim or 1% milk | 87.1 | 92.2 | 3.017 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 0.003 | 93.8 | 94.3 | 0.031 | 1.3 | 5.6 | 2.651 | ||||
| 7. Serve lean or low fat meat | 85.6 | 79.7 | 2.144 | 29.6 | 34.0 | 0.750 | 75.0 | 78.2 | 0.415 | 38.5 | 44.1 | 0.861 | ||||
| 8. Never serve sugary drinks | 75.6 | 79.1 | 0.690 | 12.8 | 9.6 | 1.021 | 84.0 | 80.6 | 0.497 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 0.037 | ||||
| 9. Serve fried meats less than one time per week or never | 71.2 | 79.6 | 3.854 | * | 18.0 | 26.3 | 3.309 | 73.8 | 78.5 | 0.890 | 27.8 | 30.4 | 0.214 | |||
| 10. Serve high sugar/fat food less than one time per week or never | 68.9 | 71.6 | 0.345 | 26.5 | 30.7 | 0.755 | 83.8 | 66.4 | 9.661 | ** | 32.1 | 40.3 | 1.930 | |||
| 11. Use either healthy foods or non-food treats | 66.9 | 54.3 | 6.172* | 58.4 | 46.5 | 5.099 | * | 60.8 | 53.9 | 1.294 | 46.1 | 52.1 | 0.945 | |||
Notes: Chi square analysis using 2x2 contingency table; *p < .05, **p < .01,†n.a. not applicable due to more than 25% of cells have count less than 5.