Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of participants.
| Usual practice |
In-person intervention |
Online training |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| n = 89 educators (30 ECCs) |
n = 102 educators (31 ECCs) |
n = 102 educators (31 ECCs) |
|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Province | |||
| New Brunswick | 34 (38) | 36 (35) | 80 (71) |
| Saskatchewan | 55 (62) | 66 (65) | 33 (29) |
| Location | |||
| Rural community | 34 (38) | 41 (40) | 13 (12) |
| Urban community | 55 (62) | 61 (60) | 100 (88) |
| Primary language spoken in the ECC | |||
| Anglophone | 64 (72) | 74 (73) | 97 (86) |
| Francophone | 25 (28) | 28 (28) | 16 (14) |
| Age (years) | |||
| 19 and under | 4 (4) | 4 (4) | 1 (1) |
| 20 to 29 | 32 (36) | 40 (39) | 46 (41) |
| 30 to 39 | 20 (23) | 25 (24) | 30 (26) |
| 40 to 49 | 23 (26) | 17 (17) | 22 (20) |
| 50 and over | 8 (9) | 8 (8) | 14 (12) |
| Did not answer | 2 (2) | 8 (8) | 0 (0) |
| Highest level of education | |||
| Did not finish high school | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | 0 (0) |
| High school diploma | 12 (14) | 4 (4) | 14 (13) |
| Some college or university | 12 (14) | 19 (18) | 8 (7) |
| College or university degree | 59 (66) | 64 (63) | 84 (74) |
| Other | 0 (0) | 2 (2) | 7 (6) |
| Did not answer | 3 (3) | 10 (10) | 0 (0) |
| Mean (standard deviation) of the number of years working as an educator in the current childcare centre | 5.01 (5.35) | 4.11 (5.26) | 5.28 (7.09) |
| Mean (standard deviation) of the number of years working as an educator in any childcare centre | 7.27 (6.37) | 6.91 (6.98) | 8.82 (8.90) |
Time and place of the study: September 2013 to May 2019 in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, Canada.