Research Evidence Bank
Food Provision
Measuring Food Provision
- Identification and Evaluation of Tools Utilised for Measuring Food Provision in Childcare Centres and Primary Schools
- Measuring food provision in Western Australian long day care (LDC) services: A weighed food record method/protocol at a service level.
- Over-provision of discretionary foods at childcare dilutes the nutritional quality of diets for children.
Food Provision Recommendations
Menu Planning
Food Allergies
Policy
Policy and Initiative Development
- National policies to prevent obesity in early childhood: Using policy mapping to compare policy lessons for Australia with six developed countries.
- Strong support for broad policies to prevent childhood obesity among mothers in New South Wales, Australia.
- Australian state and territory eclectic approaches to obesity prevention in the early years: policy mapping and perspectives of senior health officials.
Food Expenditure
Food Environment
- Food Environment
- Fat talk: Influences on body image in childcare.
- Continuing Professional Development
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian trainee childcare educators regarding their role in the feeding behaviours of young children.
- Advancing Australia's agenda for young children's health and wellbeing: Empirical insights into educator knowledge, confidence and intentions in promoting children's Learning, Eating, active play and sleep (LEAPS).
- Educators and child health nurses: Working together to support responsive infant and young child feeding practices in early childhood education and care.
- Australian early childhood educators and infant feeding: a qualitative analysis using social cognitive theory
Remote Settings
ECEC Educators
Practices
- Fat talk: Influences on body image in childcare.
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian trainee childcare educators regarding their role in the feeding behaviours of young children.
- Advancing Australia's agenda for young children's health and wellbeing: Empirical insights into educator knowledge, confidence and intentions in promoting children's Learning, Eating, active play and sleep (LEAPS).
- Educators and child health nurses: Working together to support responsive infant and young child feeding practices in early childhood education and care.
- Australian early childhood educators and infant feeding: a qualitative analysis using social cognitive theory
Continuing Professional Development
Educators Needs
Online Resources
Parents and Carers
- Child health needs of young children from families living in social and economic disadvantage.
- Confident and understanding parents (CUP s)–a child nutrition and active play pilot intervention for disadvantaged families attending supported playgroups in Victoria, Australia.
- 'He has never eaten that before': A child nutrition intervention for disadvantaged families attending playgroups in Australia.
- Early childhood nutrition, active outdoor play and sources of information for families living in highly socially disadvantaged locations.
- Early childhood nutrition concerns, resources and services for Aboriginal families in Victoria.
Infants
- Filling the gap: weaning practices of children aged 0–2 years in western metropolitan Melbourne.
- Infant feeding nutrition policies in Australian early childhood education and care services: a content and qualitative analysis.
- Creating supportive environments for responsive infant feeding in Australian early childhood education and care
- Australian early childhood educators and infant feeding: a qualitative analysis using social cognitive theory
- Educators and child health nurses: Working together to support responsive infant and young child feeding practices in early childhood education and care.
Nutrition Interventions
Feeding Practices
Family Day Care
- Nutrition, physical activity and screen time policies and practices in Family Day Care in NSW
- Assessment of Feeding Practices and Mealtime Environments in Australian Family Daycare Services.
- Foods provided to children in family day care: An observational study
- Correlates of children's dietary intake, physical activity and sedentary behavior in home-based childcare: A systematic review
- Healthy eating, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in family day care