title: The Child-care Food and Activity Practices Questionnaire (CFAPQ): development and first validation steps.
abstract: To develop and validate a questionnaire to measure food-related and activity-related practices of child-care staff, based on existing, validated parenting practices questionnaires.
  
  
  
  A selection of items from the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) and the Preschooler Physical Activity Parenting Practices (PPAPP) questionnaire was made to include items most suitable for the child-care setting. The converted questionnaire was pre-tested among child-care staff during cognitive interviews and pilot-tested among a larger sample of child-care staff. Factor analyses with Varimax rotation and internal consistencies were used to examine the scales. Spearman correlations, t tests and ANOVA were used to examine associations between the scales and staff's background characteristics (e.g. years of experience, gender).
  
  
  
  Child-care centres in the Netherlands.
  
  
  
  The qualitative pre-test included ten child-care staff members. The quantitative pilot test included 178 child-care staff members.
  
  
  
  The new questionnaire, the Child-care Food and Activity Practices Questionnaire (CFAPQ), consists of sixty-three items (forty food-related and twenty-three activity-related items), divided over twelve scales (seven food-related and five activity-related scales). The CFAPQ scales are to a large extent similar to the original CFPQ and PPAPP scales. The CFAPQ scales show sufficient internal consistency with Cronbach's α ranging between 0·53 and 0·96, and average corrected item-total correlations within acceptable ranges (0·30-0·89). Several of the scales were significantly associated with child-care staff's background characteristics.
  
  
  
  Scale psychometrics of the CFAPQ indicate it is a valid questionnaire that assesses child-care staff's practices related to both food and activities.
authors.affiliation: NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism,Department of Health Promotion,Maastricht University,PO Box 616,6200 MD Maastricht,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jessica S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gubbels
authors.affiliation: NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism,Department of Health Promotion,Maastricht University,PO Box 616,6200 MD Maastricht,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ester Fc
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Sleddens
authors.affiliation: NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism,Department of Health Promotion,Maastricht University,PO Box 616,6200 MD Maastricht,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Lieke Ch
authors.initials: LCh
authors.lastname: Raaijmakers
authors.affiliation: NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism,Department of Health Promotion,Maastricht University,PO Box 616,6200 MD Maastricht,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gies
authors.affiliation: NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism,Department of Health Promotion,Maastricht University,PO Box 616,6200 MD Maastricht,The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Stef Pj
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kremers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004032:Diet; D015444:Exercise; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D016487:Parenting; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D000078329:Workforce; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Child care; Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire; Day care; Feeding; Nutrition; Parenting practices; Physical activity; Preschooler Physical Activity Parenting Practices