Assessment of nutrition and physical activity environments in family child care homes: modification and psychometric testing of the Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation

Table 4 Correlation matrix between Child Diet Quality and EPAO Nutrition Scores (Pearson correlations and p-values)

	Overall nutrition envr^a	Foods provided	Beverages provided	Feeding environment	Feeding practices	Menus	Nutrition educ and prof dev^b	Nutrition policy
Child HEI	0.23 ^* 0.0034	0.28 ^* 0.0002	0.15 0.0504	0.05 0.5425	0.07 0.3942	0.05 0.4950	0.21 ^* 0.0068	0.18 ^* 0.0223
Nutrition environment sub-components
1. Foods provided		1	0.12 0.1275	0.15 ^* 0.0494	0.08 0.2872	−0.02 0.8481	0.11 0.1614	0.12 0.1093
2. Beverages provided			1	0.28 ^* 0.0002	0.19 ^* 0.0156	−0.08 0.3007	0.04 0.6400	0.26 ^* 0.0008
3. Feeding environment				1	0.27 ^* 0.0003	0.02 0.7776	0.09 0.2615	0.10 0.1814
4. Feeding practices					1	0.05 0.5494	0.30 ^* <0.0001	0.13 0.0975
5. Menus						1	0.05 0.5608	0.09 0.2665
6. Nutrition educ and prof dev^b							1	0.25 ^* 0.0010
7. Nutrition policy								1

^aOverall nutrition envr = overall nutrition environment
^bNutrition educ and prof deve = nutrition education and professional development
* The use of bold text with this asterik indicates correlations that were statistically significant (p<0.05)

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