Table 3.

Descriptions of Themes and Subthemes.

Identified Theme	Description	Subthemes	Potential Alignment with Behavior Change Wheel
Existence of Nutrition Policies, Standards or Guidelines	Impact of previous or ongoing initiatives on responsive feeding practices.	Existing guidelines positively affected practices and misalignment with existing guidelines.	Focuses on policy-level guidelines IF: restrictions and environmental restructuring
Education and Training Associated with the Intervention	Sharing of nutrition information with childcare providers, with the intention of increasing knowledge and behaviors related to responsive feeding.	Time and place of training delivery, qualifications of individuals delivering training, target population of training and ongoing education and training.	Focuses on educator capability IF: education, training and enablement
Providers’ Beliefs and Confidence in Responsive Feeding	How childcare provider perceptions of responsive feeding practices affected their willingness or ability to implement these practices.	Providers’ beliefs and provider confidence	Focuses on educator motivation IF: persuasion
Partnership Development and Stakeholder Engagement	Individuals who were involved in some capacity of the intervention.	Institutional and community stakeholdersand involvement of families.	Focuses on educatoropportunity IF: enablement
Availability of Resources	Importance of having tangible materials as well as monetary support to facilitate implementation or sustainability.	Financial resources, tangible resources and materials and sufficient time.	Focuses on educator opportunity IF: enablement and environmental restructuring

IF—refers to the intervention function from the behavior change wheel theory.