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Physical activity and sedentary behavior legislation in Canadian childcare facilities: an update

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2018
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Title
Physical activity and sedentary behavior legislation in Canadian childcare facilities: an update
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5292-1
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Authors

Leigh M. Vanderloo, Patricia Tucker

Abstract

Within the childcare sector, physical activity and sedentary behaviors are not legislated at a national level in Canada. Efforts have been undertaken to identify factors within childcare facilities which support and deter physical activity and sedentary behaviors. The purpose of this paper was to provide an amended review of the legislative landscape, at the provincial and territorial level, regarding physical activity and sedentary behaviors (via screen-viewing) in Canadian childcare centers. Individual childcare acts and regulations for each province and territory were collected; documents were reviewed with a focus on sections devoted to child health, physical activity, screen time, play, and outdoor time. An extraction table was used to facilitate systematic data retrieval and comparisons across provinces and territories. Of the 13 provinces and territories, 8 (62%) have updated their childcare regulations in the past 5 years. All provinces provide general recommendations to afford gross motor movement; but the majority give no specific requirements for how much or at what intensity. Only 3 provinces (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nova Scotia) explicitly mentioned daily physical activity while all provinces' and territories' required daily outdoor play. Only 1 province (New Brunswick) made mention of screen-viewing. The variability in childcare regulations results in different physical activity requirements across the country. By providing high-level targets for physical activity recommendations, by way of provincial/territorial legislation, staff would have a baseline from which to begin supporting more active behaviors among the children in their care. Future research is needed to support translating physical activity policies into improved activity levels among young children in childcare and the role of screen-viewing in these venues.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 87 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 31 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 11 13%
Sports and Recreations 10 11%
Social Sciences 10 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 8%
Psychology 6 7%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 35 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 December 2021.
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