Qing He, Amy S C Ha, Binbin Zheng, Anthony D Okely
Feasibility and potential efficacy of a family-based intervention on promoting physical activity levels and fundamental movement skills in preschoolers: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Applied psychology. Health and well-being
evidence children experience transient increase mild episodes gastroenteritis start attending outofhome child care assessed transient sustained effects cumulative daycare attendance age first enrolment type child care facility attended hospitalization rates gastroenteritis cox proportional hazard models used estimate risk hospitalized gastroenteritis two large cohorts preschool 6 years old elementary schoolgoing 610 years old children denmark daybyday childlevel registry data used together two cohorts comprised 443872 children 21038 hospitalizations 1742284 childyears 19942011 first daycare attendance 12 months cumulated attendance preschool children attending daycare centres attending daycare homes increased risk hospitalization gastroenteritis compared children never attending registered daycare increased risk highest shortly starting daycare attendance gradually declined 12 months attendance attending either daycare centres daycare homes associated lower risk hospitalization decreased risk confined children starting daycare attendance age one year extended throughout beyond preschool years attending daycare centres associated higher risk gastroenteritis hospitalization completing 1 year attendance however children start attending daycare age 1 year experience lower risk hospitalized preschool years apparent protective effect last elementary school years