An Intervention to Increase Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Education Centers (PROmoting Early Childhood Outside): Protocol for a Pilot Wait-list Control Cluster Randomized Trial

Rachel Ramsden   ¹ , MPH ;   Christina S Han   ¹ , MA ;   Dawn Mount   ¹ , BA ;   Janet Loebach   ² , PhD ;   Adina Cox   ³ , PhD ;   Susan Herrington   ⁴ , MLA ;   Anita Bundy   ⁵ , PhD ;   Amber Fyfe-Johnson   ⁶ , PhD ;   Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter   ⁷ , PhD ;   Michelle Stone   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Mark S Tremblay   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Mariana Brussoni   ^{1, 11, 12} , PhD

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

² Department of Design + Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

³ Department of Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, IA, United States

⁴ School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁵ Department of Occupational Therapy, Colorado State University College of Health and Human Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States

⁶ Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), Elson S Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Seattle, WA, United States

⁷ Department of Physical Activity and Health, Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Trondheim, Norway

⁸ School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁹ Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

¹⁰ Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹¹ Human Early Learning Partnership, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹² British Columbia Injury Research & Prevention Unit, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada