Centre-Based Child Care Attendance in Early Childhood and Growth in Later Childhood: A Prospective Cohort Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Attending centre-based child care in early childhood may influence important health behaviours including nutrition, physical activity and routines related to child growth and weight status. The primary objective was to evaluate the relationship between centre-based child care attendance between 1 and 4 years of age and Body Mass Index z-score (zBMI) from 4 to 10 years of age relative to non-centre-based child care (i.e., home-based, grandparents, relatives, and nanny's). The secondary objective was to explore if family income and child age modified the relationship. A prospective cohort study of children aged 1 to 10 years was conducted through the TARGet Kids! primary care research network. The exposure was centre-based child care attendance (hours/week). Outcomes were zBMI and odds of overweight and obesity (zBMI > 1). Interaction terms for child age and family income were explored. Linear mixed effect models and logistic generalized estimating equations were used. 3,503 children who attended child care were included (mean age: 2.7 years at baseline). Children who attended centre-based care full-time (40 hours/week) had a 0.11 (95% CI: −0.19, −0.03; p = 0.01) lower zBMI at 4 and 7 years of age and lower odds of overweight/obesity at 4 years of age (OR 0.78; 95% CI 0.62, 0.97; p = 0.03) relative to children who attended non-centre-based care. Children from families with income < $50,000CDN who attended centre-based care full time had a 0.32 (95% CI: −0.50, −0.14; p = 0.001) lower zBMI and lower odds of overweight/obesity (OR 0.52; 95% CI: 0.28, 0.99; p = 0.05) at 10 years of age relative to children who attended non-centre-based care. Attending centre-based child care in early childhood was associated with a lower zBMI and lower odds of overweight/obesity in later childhood, and associations were stronger for children from lower income families. Centre-based child care may be an effective early intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".