ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2016
Healthy Start-Départ Santé: A pilot study of a multilevel intervention to increase physical activity, fundamental movement skills and healthy eating in rural childcare centres.
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- The impact of early childhood education and care-based interventions on child physical activity, anthropometrics, fundamental movement skills, cognitive functioning, and social-emotional wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Movement Behaviour and Health Outcomes in Rural Children: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of the use and reporting of evaluation frameworks within evaluations of physical activity interventions.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Physical activity and sedentary time among preschoolers in centre-based childcare: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Pooled it
- Exploring the Relationship Between Fundamental Motor Skill Interventions and Physical Activity Levels in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the Healthy Start-Départ Santé approach on physical activity, healthy eating and fundamental movement skills of preschoolers attending childcare centres: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- Effects of physical activity interventions on fundamental movement skills and cognitive function in early childhood: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2025Review
- Assessing fundamental movement skills using the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD): Challenges and solutions to comparability and standardization.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Article
- A Nature's Way-Our Way Pilot Project Case Assemblage: (Re)Storying Child/Physical Literacy/Land Relationships for Indigenous Preschool-Aged Children's Wholistic Wellness.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Scoping review of children's and youth's outdoor play publications in Canada.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the impact of the Healthy Start/Départ Santé intervention on improving menu planning practices and improving the congruence between planned menus and actual food served in Saskatchewan childcare centres.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Childcare Physical Activity Interventions: A Discussion of Similarities and Differences and Trends, Issues, and Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- The Saskatchewan/New Brunswick Healthy Start-Départ Santé intervention: implementation cost estimates of a physical activity and healthy eating intervention in early learning centers.BMC health services research · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesIn order to improve healthy behaviours among rural children in their early years, a physical activity and healthy eating intervention (Healthy Start-Départ Santé) was implemented in rural childcare centres throughout Saskatchewan. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the impact of a multimodal physical activity and healthy eating intervention on educators' provision of opportunities for children to improve their physical activity levels, fundamental movement skills and healthy eating behaviours. SETTINGS: Six childcare centres (three Francophone and three Anglophone) located in five different rural and semi-rural communities in Saskatchewan participated in this intervention.
participantsA total of 69 children with a mean age of 4 years 9 months, and 19 female early childhood educators.
interventionGuided by an ecological framework, we implemented a population health controlled intervention, using a wait list control design (48 weeks delayed intervention), and evaluated its impact in rural childcare centres. Mixed methods were employed to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. OUTCOMES: Overall, educators felt that the intervention supported the provision of physical activity and healthy eating opportunities for children. Increases in children's physical activity levels were reported following the intervention.
conclusionThe lessons learned in this study can be used to improve the Healthy Start-Départ Santé intervention so that its implementation can be effectively expanded to childcare centres within and outside Saskatchewan, in turn, supporting the healthy development of early years (0-5) children in the province and beyond.
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