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 5 Correlation matrix between Child Physical Activity and EPAO Physical Activity Scores (Pearson correlations and p-values)

	Overall PA envr^a	PA time provided^b	Indoor play equip^c	PA practices^d	Screen time	ST practices^e	Outdoor playtime	Outdoor play envr^f	PA educ and prof dev^g	PA policy^h	ST policyⁱ
Child MVPA	0.002 0.9826	0.18 ^* 0.0228	0.11 0.1549	0.04 0.5771	−0.16 ^* 0.0419	−0.21 ^* 0.0060	0.20 ^* 0.0115	0.04 0.5738	−0.04 0.6028	−0.13 0.0849	−0.03 0.6639
Physical activity environment sub-components
1. PA time provided^b		1	0.19 0.0126	0.13 0.0955	−0.02 0.7718	−0.18 ^* 0.0187	0.41 ^* <0.0001	0.18 ^* 0.0237	−0.05 0.5591	−0.07 0.3656	0.04 0.5838
2. Indoor play equip^c			1	0.34 ^* <0.0001	−0.10 0.2141	−0.05 ^* 0.0187	0.29 ^* 0.0001	0.63 ^* <0.0001	0.23 ^* 0.0024	0.01 0.9173	−0.03 0.6928
3. PA practices^d				1	0.03 0.7311	−0.01 0.8520	0.27 ^* 0.0004	0.30 ^* <0.0001	0.20 ^* 0.0024	0.12 0.1264	0.09 0.2562
4. Screen time					1	0.70 ^* <0.0001	−0.06 0.4148	−0.15 0.0623	0.01 0.8676	0.01 0.8652	0.02 0.7775
5. ST practices^e						1	−0.15 0.0545	−0.08 0.3211	0.02 0.8066	0.15 0.0579	0.02 0.8401
6. Outdoor playtime							1	0.45 ^* <0.0001	0.01 0.9126	−0.08 0.3125	0.10 0.2008
7. Outdoor play envr^f								1	0.12 0.1349	−0.05 0.5170	−0.03 0.7126
8. PA educ and prof dev^g									1	0.18 ^* 0.0239	0.10 0.2054
9. PA policy^h										1	0.41 ^* <0.0001
10. ST policyⁱ											1

^aOverall PA envr = overall physical activity environment
^bPA time provided = physical activity time provided
^cIndoor play equip = indoor play equipment
^dPA practices = physical activity practices
^eST practices = screen time practices
^fOutdoor play envr = outdoor play environment
^gPA educ and prof dev = physical activity education and professional development
^hPA policy = physical activity policy
ⁱST policy = screen time policy
* The use of bold text with this asterik indicates correlations that were statistically significant (p<0.05)

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