scholarly journals Using Social Network Analysis to Identify Key Child Care Center Staff for Obesity Prevention Interventions: A Pilot Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Marks ◽  
Lisa M. Barnett ◽  
Chad Foulkes ◽  
Penelope Hawe ◽  
Steven Allender
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Network Density ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Long Day

Introduction. Interest has grown in how systems thinking could be used in obesity prevention. Relationships between key actors, represented by social networks, are an important focus for considering intervention in systems.Method. Two long day care centers were selected in which previous obesity prevention programs had been implemented. Measures showed ways in which physical activity and dietary policy are conversations and actions transacted through social networks (interrelationships) within centers, via an eight item closed-ended social network questionnaire. Questionnaire data were collected from (17/20; response rate 85%) long day care center staff. Social network density and centrality statistics were calculated, using UCINET social network software, to examine the role of networks in obesity prevention.Results. “Degree” (influence) and “betweeness” (gatekeeper) centrality measures of staff inter-relationships about physical activity, dietary, and policy information identified key players in each center. Network density was similar and high on some relationship networks in both centers but markedly different in others, suggesting that the network tool identified unique center social dynamics. These differences could potentially be the focus of future team capacity building.Conclusion. Social network analysis is a feasible and useful method to identify existing obesity prevention networks and key personnel in long day care centers.

scholarly journals Robot-Enhanced Language Learning for Children in Norwegian Day-Care Centers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Halbach ◽  
Trenton Schulz ◽  
Wolfgang Leister ◽  
Ivar Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Nao Robot ◽  
Program Language

We transformed the existing learning program Language Shower, which is used in some Norwegian day-care centers in the Grorud district of Oslo municipality, into a digital solution using an app for smartphone or tablet with the option for further enhancement of presentation by a NAO robot. The solution was tested in several iterations and multiple day-care centers over several weeks. Measurements of the children’s progress across learning sessions indicate a positive impact of the program using a robot as compared to the program without robot. In-situ observations and interviews with day care center staff confirmed the solution’s many advantages, but also revealed some important areas for improvement. In particular, the speech recognition needs to be more flexible and robust, and special measures have to be in place to handle children speaking simultaneously.

Day-Care Center Exclusion of Sick Children: Comparison of Opinions of Day-Care Staff, Working Mothers, and Pediatricians

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne E. Landis ◽  
Jo Anne L. Earp ◽  
Michael Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Childhood Infections ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Day-care center staff are often faced with the decision of whether to send sick children home. Some pediatricians may question the criteria used by day-care centers to exclude children who have mild infectious illnesses. To determine whether there is a consensus on illness policy, we asked day-care center staff, mothers, and pediatricians which sick children in day care should be excluded. Randomly selected day-care center staff, mothers, and pediatricians in three North Carolina counties completed self-administered questionnaires. We asked how combinations of temperature and symptoms that occur with common childhood infections should affect the staff's decisions to "call the parent for immediate pickup." Response rates were 302 of 347 staff (87%), 134 of 200 mothers (67%), and 69 of 80 pediatricians (86%). A temperature of 37.2° to 37.7°C (99° to 99.9°F) was considered a fever by 35% of staff, 24% of mothers, and 6% of pediatricians (P < .01). At every level of elevated temperature from 37.2° to 38.9°C (99° to 102°F), day-care center staff were more likely to request immediate pickup than mothers or pediatricians (P < .01). For each of eight symptoms and for all three groups of respondents, the addition of a temperature of 37.8°(100°F) increased the proportion of children sent home (P < .01). Day-care center staff, mothers, and pediatricians differ in their reported exclusionary practices for ill day-care children. Public health practitioners should continue to educate all groups in terms of the epidemiology of common infections in day-care centers; communities should consider designing alternative child-care arrangements for mildlyillchildren.

scholarly journals Opportunities of Educating Responsibility in Online Social Networks among Teenage Girls at Children’s Day Care Centers

Pedagogika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-267
Author(s):  
Rasa Skališienė ◽  
Lilia Žukauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Film Reviews

This article reveals education opportunities at Children’s Day Care Centers on purpose to strengthen responsible participation of teenage girls in online social networks (OSN). On purpose to reveal the opportunities of educating responsibility in online social networks among teenage girls, qualitative research access has been applied. 16 specialists from different Children’s Day Centers of Lithuania have participated in the interview. Analysis data revealed that Child day care center specialists in order to ensure teenagers’ safety in social networking sites apply various educational methods: individual talks, rules for the use of social networking sites, organize group activities, discussions, film reviews, have conversations with parents. Active online participation of teenage girls, their inability to assess threats posed by social networks increase their vulnerability involving the risk of privacy, communication and information content. Girls’ safety in social networking sites becomes an incentive to help them become responsible users of social networking sites. Data analysis revealed that girls’ responsibility in social networks could be increased by systematic and consistent educational work, combining all the three components of responsibility (knowledge, abilities and values), based on the dialogue principle and quality institutional cooperation.

scholarly journals Leveraging Emergent Social Networks to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Low-Income Parents With Preschool-Aged Children

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110316
Author(s):  
Sabina B. Gesell ◽  
Shari L. Barkin ◽  
Edward H. Ip ◽  
Santiago J. Saldana ◽  
Evan C. Sommer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Pediatric Obesity ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Prevention Intervention ◽  
Social Network Ties

This study tested the hypothesis that parents participating in a pediatric obesity intervention who formed social network ties with a parent in the intervention arm would engage in more daily physical activity and less sedentary behavior (after controlling for participant covariates). Data were collected at baseline, 12 months, and 36 months from 610 low-income parent–child pairs participating in an obesity prevention intervention for 3- to 5-year-old children. A network survey was used to identify social network ties among parents and accelerometers were used to measure parental physical activity and sedentary time. Longitudinal regression analyses tested effects of social network ties on parents’ physical activity and sedentary behavior. Compared with parents without a social network tie, having a tie with an intervention group participant was associated with a clinically meaningful 11.04 min/day decrease in parental sedentary behavior that approached statistical significance (95% confidence interval [CI] = [−22.71, 0.63], p = .06). Social network ties among parents in a pediatric obesity prevention intervention were not clearly associated with reduced sedentary behavior among those parents at the traditional level of p = .05. The large effect size (over 77 min per week improvement) suggests there might be potential importance of promoting new social networks in community-based health promotion interventions to elicit and support behavior change, but further examination is needed.

scholarly journals Robot-Enhanced Language Learning for Children in Norwegian Day-Care Centers

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Till Halbach ◽  
Trenton Schulz ◽  
Wolfgang Leister ◽  
Ivar Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Nao Robot ◽  
Program Language

In a case study, we transformed the existing learning program Language Shower, which is used in some Norwegian day-care centers in the Grorud district of Oslo municipality, into a digital solution using an app for smartphones or tablets with the option for further enhancement of the presentation by a NAO robot. The solution was tested in several iterations and multiple day-care centers over several weeks. Measurements of the children’s progress across learning sessions indicated a positive impact of the program using a robot as compared to the program without a robot. In situ observations and interviews with day-care center staff confirmed the solution’s many advantages, but also revealed some important areas for improvement. In particular, the speech recognition needs to be more flexible and robust, and special measures have to be in place to handle children speaking simultaneously.

Injuries in Swedish Day-Care Centers

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1033-1036
Author(s):  
Eva Sellström ◽  
Sven Bremberg ◽  
Albert Chang
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Common Coding ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
Local Injury ◽  
Set Up

In the developed countries, an increasing number of children are enrolled in day-care centers. When parents leave their child in a day-care center they expect high standards of health and safety. Accidental injuries are a major threat in this age group. In a comparable institution that serves children, the school, the risk of injury is higher than in the home environment.1-2 Thus, safety in day-care centers cannot be taken for granted. A few studies of injuries in day-care centers have been reported, from the Nordic countries2,3-5 and from the US.6-10 Most of these studies, however, have been small and most lack information on time of exposure. Information about the risk of injury in Swedish day-care centers might be of interest as enrollment has been high for a long time. In Sweden, within the frame of a national injury program,11 a number of local hospital- and health center-based injury report systems have been set up. All have a basic common coding. These systems enable compilation of injuries in day-care centers on a national basis. The aim of our study was to analyze child injuries in day-care centers as reported in 10 local injury registry systems in Sweden regarding incidence, type, and mechanism of injury. METHOD Data were compiled from 10 local injury registry systems, covering 1- to 2-year periods. The earliest registers were from the years 1983 to 1984 and the latest from 1991. These systems were set up in all medical institutions at a predefined level, covering all individuals in a total or a part of a county.

Risk Factors for Pneumonia Among Children in a Brazilian Metropolitan Area

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 977-985
Author(s):  
Cesar G. Victora ◽  
Sandra C. Fuchs ◽  
José Antonio C. Flores ◽  
Walter Fonseca ◽  
Betty Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Cause Of Deaths ◽  
History Of ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Weight For Age

Objective. To investigate risk factors for pneumonia for infants <2 years of age. Design. Hospital-based, case-control study with neighborhood control subjects. Setting. Urban area in southern Brazil. Subjects. Five hundred ten infants with radiologically confirmed pneumonia who were admitted to a pediatric hospital. One age-matched neighborhood control subject was selected for each case. Results. Multiple conditional regression modeling was used to control for confounding, taking into account the hierarchical relationships between risk factors. The incidence of radiologically confirmed pneumonia was associated with low paternal education, the number of persons in the household, young maternal age, attendance at day-care centers, low birth weight and weight-for-age, lack of breast-feeding and of non-milk supplements, and a history of previous pneumonia or wheezing. Day-care center attendance showed the highest risk, with an adjusted odds ratio of 11.75. Conclusions. In addition to continued efforts toward appropriate case management, actions directed against the above risk factors may help prevent the major cause of deaths of children younger than 5 years.

Meningococcal Disease in Day-Care Centers

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-300
Author(s):  
Jay A. Jacobson ◽  
Gregory A. Filice ◽  
J. Ted Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Meningococcal Disease ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
Dangerous Situation ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Prolonged Contact ◽  
Protective Antibodies

Household contacts exposed to patients with meningococcal disease are at demonstrably higher risk of that disease than the general population.1,2 Less intimate and less prolonged contact such as that involving hospital personnel3 or school classmates4 is not clearly associated with increased risk. This may well be due to the fact that older children and adults commonly have protective antibodies.5 Preschoolers, on the other hand, are more often susceptible as shown by their higher age-specific primary6 and secondary7 attack rates. When a child who attends a day-care center nursery develops meningococcal disease the presumed exposure of numerous susceptibles is a theoretically dangerous situation.

An Investigation of Factors that Influence Hygiene Practices at a Small Day Care Center

2017 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jee Hye Lee
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Classification And Regression Tree ◽  
Food Hygiene ◽  
Food Handlers ◽  
Certification Authority ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Hygiene Practices

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore factors that influence hygiene practices at small day care centers. It examines the effect of food hygiene training on hygiene practices and investigates the correlations between the hygienic status of food handlers' hands and that of kitchen utensils. Furthermore, it determines the influences of demographic and facility-related factors on hygiene practices in small day care centers. A total of 56 food handlers at 49 day care centers in the Gyeongnam area of South Korea participated in hygiene training. The results of the study showed that after two training sessions, the ATP bioluminescence levels of knives (P < 0.01), cutting boards (P < 0.01), food handlers' hands (P < 0.001), and UV disinfection cabinets (P < 0.01) decreased. After training, the total scores on the inspection checklist were significantly improved (P < 0.05). Strong associations between the microbial quality of hands and kitchen utensils were seen. Classification and regression tree analysis identified important factors that influence hygiene practices at small food service kitchens, such as status of registration with the government certification authority, length of food handlers' working experience and their age, and maximum number of people served. This study helps to broaden our knowledge of food hygiene issues in small day care centers.

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