Evaluation of the Healthy Apple program to improve nutrition and physical activity practices and child weight change in child care centers in San Francisco

Healthy Apple Program pilot intervention for child care centers in San Francisco to improve their nutrition and physical activity practices and mean weight change for enrolled children ages 2 to 4 over 6 months

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN18857356

Enrollment

900

Registered

2015-04-24

Start date

2011-09-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-05-29

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Conditions

Nutrition and physical activity practices of child care centers and weight change of children enrolled in child care centers. Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

1. Intervention group receives usual San Francisco Dept of Health Child Care Health Program (SFDH CCHP) services plus additional invitation to: 1.1. Complete a Healthy Apple provider self-assessment

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All children enrolled at the participating child care centers serviced by the SFDH CCHP are eligible to take part, and for services and follow-up.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Child care centers not served by the SFDPH CCHP.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Number of nutrition and physical activity best practices implemented	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Child care center mean 6 month change in BMI percentile	—

Countries

United States of America

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 8, 2026