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Shining the Light on You:: An Evidence-Based Program Designed to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Family Child Care Professionals

OBJECTIVE: To design and assess the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of family child care professionals. METHODS: The early care and education (ECE) workforce, and family child care (FCC) educators in particular, face challenges to their wellbeing,...

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Autores principales: Lessard, Laura, Hallam, Rena, Albrecht, Sarah, Plautz, Eric, Fulgence-Belardo, Kyma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9495482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36177173
http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.08.010
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author Lessard, Laura
Hallam, Rena
Albrecht, Sarah
Plautz, Eric
Fulgence-Belardo, Kyma
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description OBJECTIVE: To design and assess the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of family child care professionals. METHODS: The early care and education (ECE) workforce, and family child care (FCC) educators in particular, face challenges to their wellbeing, mental and physical health. In addition, the demographics of the FCC workforce – disproportionately composed of low-income women of color - are associated with higher risk for chronic diseases. The Shining the Light on You program is designed to address FCC professional wellbeing in a feasible, evidence-based manner. The program includes weekly virtual sessions co-facilitated by a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (HWC) and a Technical Assistance Coach (Early Childhood Specialist) and three individual coaching sessions with the HWC. HWC is built upon a foundation of behavior change theories, motivational strategies and effective communication approaches from psychology, medicine, public health and related fields. Using a mixed methods approach to gather data, participants from three initial cohorts of the program (n=33) implemented in Delaware reported improvement in health and wellbeing indicators. RESULTS: Participants reported improvements in social support, physical activity and water consumption from pre- to post-program surveys. In interviews conducted with the participants following the program, participants consistently commented on the connections between all components of wellbeing and the importance of self-care. CONCLUSIONS: This model demonstrates the potential of integrating best practices from HWC and the ECE system.
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spelling pubmed-94954822022-09-28 Shining the Light on You:: An Evidence-Based Program Designed to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Family Child Care Professionals Lessard, Laura Hallam, Rena Albrecht, Sarah Plautz, Eric Fulgence-Belardo, Kyma Dela J Public Health Article OBJECTIVE: To design and assess the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of family child care professionals. METHODS: The early care and education (ECE) workforce, and family child care (FCC) educators in particular, face challenges to their wellbeing, mental and physical health. In addition, the demographics of the FCC workforce – disproportionately composed of low-income women of color - are associated with higher risk for chronic diseases. The Shining the Light on You program is designed to address FCC professional wellbeing in a feasible, evidence-based manner. The program includes weekly virtual sessions co-facilitated by a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (HWC) and a Technical Assistance Coach (Early Childhood Specialist) and three individual coaching sessions with the HWC. HWC is built upon a foundation of behavior change theories, motivational strategies and effective communication approaches from psychology, medicine, public health and related fields. Using a mixed methods approach to gather data, participants from three initial cohorts of the program (n=33) implemented in Delaware reported improvement in health and wellbeing indicators. RESULTS: Participants reported improvements in social support, physical activity and water consumption from pre- to post-program surveys. In interviews conducted with the participants following the program, participants consistently commented on the connections between all components of wellbeing and the importance of self-care. CONCLUSIONS: This model demonstrates the potential of integrating best practices from HWC and the ECE system. Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9495482/ /pubmed/36177173 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.08.010 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The journal and its content is copyrighted by the Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association (Academy/DPHA). This DJPH site, its contents, and its metadata are licensed under Creative Commons License - CC BY-NC-ND. (Please click to read (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) common-language details on this license type, or copy and paste the following into your web browser: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Images are NOT covered under the Creative Commons license and are the property of the original photographer or company who supplied the image. Opinions expressed by authors of articles summarized, quoted, or published in full within the DJPH represent only the opinions of those authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Academy/DPHA or the institution with which the authors are affiliated.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36177173
http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2022.08.010
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