Food Allergy Needs Assessment, Training Curriculum, and Knowledge Assessment for Child Care

Abstract

BJ Lanser, R Covar, JA Bird. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2016;116(6):533–537.e4 To ascertain the educational needs of child care center workers (CCCWs) in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and to provide education covering topics critical to understanding food allergies and anaphylaxis. CCCWs in 72 licensed child care centers in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The authors developed a needs assessment survey, which was used to develop a training curriculum, and a knowledge assessment was developed from the training curriculum. Most of the respondents worked in large child …