by Hannah Joy on
April 7, 2021 at 4:28 PM
Family child care home providers (FCCH) experience stress and self-efficacy affects their daily diet. However, FCCH providers with high diet self-efficacy are better equipped to manage stress, reveals a new study.
Self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their ability to manage their situation for healthy eating is an important component of health promotion and can buffer the impact of stress on their diet quality, according to a new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier.
"The FCCH provider is an important source of child care in this country. A lot of families from lower-income environments use the FCCH because of its affordability and location," said Dianne Ward, EdD, of the Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.