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. 2023 Jun 15;13(6):e070726.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070726.

Physical activity promotion in daycare centres in Germany: study protocol for a cross-sectional survey within the BeweKi study

Sophie Hermann  1 , Susanne Krug  1 , Olga Maria Domanska  1 , Juliane Wurm  1 , Johanna Romefort  2 , Susanne Kuger  2 , Julika Loss  1 , Susanne Jordan  3
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Physical activity promotion in daycare centres in Germany: study protocol for a cross-sectional survey within the BeweKi study

Sophie Hermann et al. BMJ Open. .

Abstract

Introduction: In Germany, a total of 92.2% of children between the age of 3 and school entry age attend daycare centres. Therefore, daycare centres are a suitable setting to promote physical activity among children. Yet, there is a lack of knowledge on the promotion of physical activity in daycare centres with regards to different structures and concepts, culture/policies/practices and the characteristics of directors and pedagogical staff of daycare centres in Germany. The aim of this study is to investigate (a) the status quo, as well as (b) the fostering and hindering conditions (barriers and facilitators) of physical activity promotion in daycare centres in Germany.

Methods and analysis: The cross-sectional study will collect data from November 2022 to February 2023. For the sample, about 5500 daycare centres will be drawn from an address database available through the German Youth Institute (DJI) and invited to the survey. From each daycare centre a director and a pedagogical staff member will be asked to fill in a standardised self-administered questionnaire. The survey explores characteristics of the daycare centre and the implementation of physical activity promotion, for example, the extent and form of physical activity promotion, the use and size of indoor and outdoor area, structural conditions such as personal and financial resources, personal attitudes towards physical activity promotion, demographic characteristics of pedagogical staff, structural daycare centre's characteristics such as proportion of children from socioeconomic disadvantaged groups. In addition, micro-geographical data on socioeconomic and infrastructural environment of the daycare centres will be included in the data set.

Ethics and dissemination: The study has been received and approved by the Commissioner for Data Protection of the Robert Koch Institute and by the Ethics Committee of Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, University of Applied Sciences. Results will be disseminated through publications and presentations to scientific community and stakeholders.

Keywords: Community child health; PUBLIC HEALTH; Protocols & guidelines.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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The sampling procedure of daycare centres.
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