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Child care and common communicable illnesses in children ages 37-54 months [Abridged] A study of the relationship between children’s experience in nonmaternal care and rates of respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and ear infections from 3 to 41/2 years old in a sample of approximately 1,100 children |
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Childcare and health: A review of using linked national registers A review of studies using the Childcare Database dataset to explore the association between child care attendance and the incidence of disease in a population of over 1 million young children in Denmark |
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Child care and obesity prevention: A Key Topic Resource List A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on child care and obesity prevention, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature and a listing of resources in the areas of food and nutrition, exercise and physical activity, prevention programs and interventions, and policies, regulations, and monitoring |
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Childcare and overweight or obesity over 10 years of follow-up Objective: To investigate the predictive association between preschool childcare arrangements and overweight/obesity in childhood. Study design: Children were enrolled in a prospective birth cohort in Quebec, Canada (n = 1649). Information about childcare obtained via questionnaires to the mothers at ages 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, and 4 years was used to compute a main childcare arrangement exposure variable (center-based/family-based/care by a relative/nanny). Body mass index was derived from measured weights and heights at ages 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 years and children were classified as overweight/obese versus normal weight. Generalized estimating equations were used to model the effect of main childcare arrangement (center-based/family-based/relative/nanny) (vs parental care) on overweight/obesity adjusting for several potential confounding factors. Results: Compared with parental care, children who attended a center-based childcare (OR: 1.65, 95% CI: 1.13-2.41) or were cared for by a relative (OR: 1.50; 95% CI: 0.95-2.38, although with greater uncertainty) had higher odds of being overweight/obese in childhood (4-10 years). Analyses of number of hours additionally suggested that each increment of 5 hours spent in either center-based or relative childcare increased the odds of overweight/obesity in the first decade of life by 9%. Associations were not explained by a wide range of confounding factors, including socioeconomic position, breastfeeding, maternal employment, and maternal body mass index. Conclusion: Overweight/obesity was more frequently observed in children who received non-parental care in center-based settings or care by a relative other than the parent. "Obesogeonic" features of these childcare arrangements should be investigated in future studies. (author abstract) |
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Child care arrangements and repeated ear infections in young children An inquiry into the association between child care arrangements and the recurrence of ear infections in young children, based on a subsample of 5,818 children ages birth to six years old from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey of Child Heath |
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Childcare as a stabilizing influence on HPA axis functioning: A reevaluation of maternal occupational patterns and familial relations An examination of the effects of maternal employment, family environment, and child care arrangements on young children's cortisol levels |
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Child care as an untapped setting for obesity prevention: State child care licensing regulations related to nutrition, physical activity, and media use for preschool-aged children in the United States A categorical study of state obesity prevention-related child care licensing regulations in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, and electronic media usage for center-based and family-based child care settings |
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The childcare environment and children's physical activity A study of the relationship between child care environment and children's physical activities from direct observations in 20 child care centers over 2 days |
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Child-care environment and dietary intake of 2- and 3-year-old children An exploration of the relationship between social and physical child care environment and the dietary intake of 135 2 and 3-year-old children in Dutch child care centers assessed by random observation at morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack over a period of 2 months in 2008 |
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Child care feeding programs support young children’s healthy development A discussion of the role of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) on the health of young children in child care centers and family child care homes |
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Child care: Implications for overweight / obesity in Canadian children? Introduction: Over recent decades, two prominent trends have been observed in Canada and elsewhere: increasing prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity, and increasing participation of women (including mothers) in the paid labour force and resulting demand for child care options. While an association between child care and children's body mass index (BMI) is plausible and would have policy relevance, its existence and nature in Canada is not known. Methods: Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, we examined exposure to three types of care at age 2/3 years (care by non-relative, care by relative, care in a daycare centre) in relation to change in BMI percentile (continuous and categorical) between age 2/3 years and age 6/7 years, adjusting for health and sociodemographic correlates. Results: Care by a non-relative was associated with an increase in BMI percentile between age 2/3 years and age 6/7 years for boys, and for girls from households of low income adequacy. Conclusion: Considering the potential benefits of high-quality formal child care for an array of health and social outcomes and the potentially adverse effects of certain informal care options demonstrated in this study and others, our findings support calls for ongoing research on the implications of diverse child care experiences for an array of outcomes including those related to weight. (author abstract) |
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Child care providers' strategies for supporting healthy eating: A qualitative approach An examination of the strategies child care providers report using to encourage healthy eating for the children in their care, and the factors influencing the providers' choice of strategies, based on data from 8 center-based and 5 home-based providers from the Ottawa region |
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Child care quality and children's cortisol in Basque Country and the Netherlands Cross-national comparisons of the relationship between children's cortisol levels in child care and at home as well as the relationship between quality of care and children's cortisol levels, in samples of 60 toddlers in child care centers in Spanish Basque Country and 25 children in care centers in the Netherlands |
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Child care setting affects salivary cortisol and antibody secretion in young children A study of the relationship of illness frequency to both cortisol levels and antibody secretions, measured several times throughout each day and both at home and at child care, in a sample of 65 children from upstate New York |
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity An exploration of the relationship between child care subsidy receipt, subsidy policies, and children’s obesity, based on data from a sample of more than 21,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS)-K |
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity An exploration of the relationship between child care subsidy receipt, subsidy policies, and children’s obesity, based on data from a sample of more than 21,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS)-K |
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity An exploration of the relationships between children's obesity and both child care subsidy receipt and subsidy policies, based on data from a sample of more than 21,000 children |
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Childcare use and inequalities in breastfeeding: Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study A study of the relationship between formal and informal child care use and breastfeeding for different socioeconomic groups, based on data from 18,050 infants from a longitudinal study of children born in 2000-2002 in the United Kingdom |
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Child day care, smoking by caregivers, and lower respiratory tract illness in the first 3 years of life A study of the relationship between child care and the occurrence of lower respiratory tract illnesses in the first three years of life, with issues such as smoking by child care providers and protective measures in relation to longer child care enrollment addressed and information elicited from 1006 parents |
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Children of current and former welfare recipients: Similarly at risk A brief comparing the children of welfare recipients and welfare leavers on indicators of health, social behavior, and school engagement |
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Children's cortisol and the quality of teacher-child relationships in child care A study of the correlation between the quality of teacher-child relationships and individual levels of the cortisol stress hormone in a population of 191 preschoolers at 12 child care centers in two Southeastern communities |
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Children's cortisol levels and the quality of child care provision A study of the relation between child care quality and children's cortisol levels, comparing the cortisol levels of Australian children who attended high quality child care with children who attended lower quality child care centers |
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Children's cortisol patterns and the quality of the learning environment An examination of the association between child care program quality and children's cortisol levels, based on a sample of 146 children from 3 child care centers in middle-class areas on Helsinki, Finland |
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Children's elevated cortisol levels at daycare: A review and meta-analysis A review of nine studies examining young children's elevated cortisol levels at child care and an analysis of age, gender, and child's temperament in terms of affecting cortisol level |
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Chronic conditions, functional limitations, and special health care needs of school-aged children born with extremely low-birth-weight in the 1990s An follow-up examination of the effects of developmental, neurosensory, and medical conditions and their associated functional limitations on the special health care needs of school-aged children born with a low birth weight, based on a sample of 395 children in Cleveland, Ohio |
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