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Born too soon: What can we expect?: Nature of home literacy experiences for children with very low birth weight
Ragusa, G., July, 2009
Early Child Development and Care, 179(5), 651-670

An exploration of the home literacy experiences of children born with a very low birth weight and their influence on children?s literacy development, based on observations of and interviews with 16 families of 4-year old children born with a very low birthweight

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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
Kaphingst, Karen M., January 2009
Preventing Chronic Disease, 6(1)

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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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M., May 2009
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 15007). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

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
Herbst, Chris M., June 2009
(Discussion Paper No. 4255). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

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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Cortisol patterns at home and child care: Afternoon differences and evening recovery in children attending very high quality full-day center-based child care
Watamura, Sarah, July-August 2009
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30(4), 475-485

A study of the relationship between measurements of classroom quality and changes in children's cortisol levels at three child care centers in upstate New York which score very highly on a measurement of quality

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Dietary intake in Head Start vs. non-Head Start preschool-aged children: Results from the 1999-2004 NHANES
Bucholz, Emily, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT

A comparison of both the total nutrient intakes and the risk of not meeting dietary guidelines for participants and non-participants in Head Start, past preschool or non-preschool participants from cross-sectional data for 950 low-income 3- through 5-year- old participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2004

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Effect of early intervention on 8-Year growth status of low-birth-weight preterm infants
Casey, Patrick H., November 2009
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 163(11), 1046-1053

A study of the effect of the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) educational intervention, delivered between birth and age 3, on the physical growth up to age 8 of low-birth-weight children, based on data collected through a randomized trial of 377 and intervention and 608 non-intervention children stratified by birth-weight categories

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Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children
Hubbard, Mai Noguchi, 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An examination of the relationship between both maternal employment and usage of non-parental after- and/or before-school supervision and elementary school-age children's body mass statuses from restricted use version of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 from waves 4, 5, and 6

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Expanding exposure: Can increasing the daily duration of Head Start reduce childhood obesity?
Frisvold, David E., 22 April, 2009
Atlanta, GA: Emory University, Department of Economics.

A comparison of the prevalence of obesity between children who attend full-day Head Start classes and those who attend half-day classes, based on data from a Head Start grantee in Michigan from 2001-2002 through 2005-2006 school years

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Food subsidies for child care providers: Correlates of program participation and child outcomes
Gordon, Rachel A., December, 2009
(Working Paper No. 10.02). Chicago: Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.

An examination of the characteristics of children served by the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), differences among CACFP-eligible participant and nonparticipant families, and the relationship of attending CACFP-participating child care to children's food consumption, food insecurity, and weight, based on an analysis of data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

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Instructional climates in preschool children who are at-risk. Part I: Object-control skill development
Robinson, Leah E., September 2009
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 80(3), 533-542

A comparison of the impacts of a 9 week low autonomy (LA) or a mastery motivational climate (MMC) on object-control skill development of 117 preschoolers randomly assigned to LA, MMC, or control group classrooms at two Head Start sites

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Policies and characteristics of the preschool environment and physical activity of young children
Dowda, Marsha, February 2009
Pediatrics, 123(2), e261-e266

An exploration of the association between the amount of time children spend in nonsedentary activities per day and both preschool administrative policies towards children’s activities and available playtime equipment, based on data from a subsample of 3 to 5 year old children from 20 preschools that participated in the Children’s Activity and Movement in Preschool Study

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Social and environmental factors associated with preschoolers' nonsedentary physical activity
Brown, William H., January/February 2009
Child Development, 80(1), 45-58

An investigation of the associations between several indoor and outdoor preschool settings and children's engagement in sedentary and nonsedentary physical activities, based on observations of 476 children from 32 child care centers, Head Start centers, and faith-based programs in a metropolitan area of South Carolina

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A study of early fine motor intervention in Down’s syndrome children
Aparicio, Teresa Sanz, July 2009
Early Child Development and Care, 179(5), 631-636

An inquiry into the influence of an early fine motor intervention on the development of children’s fine motor skills, based on a sample of 30 children with Down syndrome observed at varied periods between 6 months and 18 months of age

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