vandenBosch_2017 - Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: A review of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Basic Article Info:

Article key vandenBosch_2017
Title Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: A review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
Year 2016
Review type systematic review
Main topic Health impacts of housing improvements
Subjects area(s) Environment and nature, Social and behavioural, Health and well-being
Built environment scale Community / Population group
Application(s) Policy making, Practice, Human interactions and community engagement
Geographically focused no
Prisma diagram used yes
Study focus start 1990
Study focus end 2014
Search string Search strings provided are extremely long to include here. Following is a very short part as an example: "((Volunteer$ or voluntary) adj5 (environment$ or nature or rural or countryside or outdoor$ or outside or backcountry or hinterland or outback or wood$ or park$1 or parkland or gar- den$ or meadow$ or horticultural or floricultural or botanical or arboretum or allotment$ or forest$ or rainforest or moor$ or dale$1 or marsh$ or mountain$ or beach$ or wilderness or landscape$ or tree$ or copse$ or river$ or lake$ or canal$ or waterway or wetland$ or (open adj1 space$) or (protected adj1 area$) or green$ or planning$ or footpath$ or trail$ or coast$ or cliff$ or dune$ or (bio adj1 diversity) or (eco adj1 system) or (protected adj1 area$))).ti,ab"
No. of original sources 28
Synthesis method qualitative
Quantitative map included yes
Conflict of interest "There are no studies where the funder is both known and unlikely to have a potential conflict of interest.Many of the included studies may be subject to bias through author conflict of interest.Nine of the nineteen included studies were funded, or received partial funding from, organisations promoting the use of the natural envi- ronment (funders given in brackets): Birch 2005 (BTCV); BTCV 2010a (BTCV/Big Lottery); Christie 2004 (Greening Australia); Gooch 2005 (Bush/land/water Care); O’Brien 2010a (Scottish Forestry Trust/Forestry Commission); O’Brien 2008a (Scottish ForestryTrust/ForestryCommission);Townsend 2006 (ParksVic- toria/People and Parks Foundation); Townsend 2005 (Trust for Nature);Wilson 2009 (included the Forestry Commission). Additionally, three studies (BTCV 2010a; O’Brien 2008a; O’Brien 2010a) were authored by the individual working for or associated with the organisation which was providing the intervention or funding the research, or both. Two study authors were also involved in more than one included study. LizO’Brien authored or co-authored three included studies (Carter 2008;O’Brien 2008a;O’Brien 2010a),Mardie Townsend authored or co-authored four of the included studies (O’Brien 2008a; Townsend 2004; Townsend 2006; Townsend 2005)."
Comments Grey-literature also have been included. Comprehensive details about search strategy is provided (as usual for Cochrane Reviews). Only selected information on search-string and search-terms is coded here.

 

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Keywords used in search community, conversation, diversity, environment, forest, green, group, nature, open space, organisation, participant, planning, rural, system, urban, volunteer

 

Authorship

Authors
Name Email Organisation Address Country
Rebecca Lovell r.lovell@exeter.ac.uk European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School RCHT, Truro TR1 3HD United Kingdom
Kerryn Husk* European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School RCHT, Truro TR1 3HD United Kingdom
Kerryn Husk* NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC), Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry ITTC Building, Tamar Science Park, Plymouth PL6 8BX United Kingdom
Chris Cooper University of Exeter Medical School, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group Veysey Building, Exeter EX2 4SG United Kingdom
Will Stahl-Timmins European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School RCHT, Truro TR1 3HD United Kingdom
Will Stahl-Timmins BMJ BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR United Kingdom
Ruth Garside European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School RCHT, Truro TR1 3HD United Kingdom

 

Funding

Funding sources
Funding source Address Country Funded year Comments
NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) United Kingdom


Article publication information:

Article type Journal article
Article category Text
Geographical scale International
Language English
Chapter or part
Conference date
Conference venue
Published date 2016-05-21
Edition
Issue 5
Journal Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Pagination
Peer reviewed yes
Publication place
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
School / department or centre
Series volume no.
Series title
Series sort no.
Volume 2016
Website owner
Copyrights of article The Cochrane Collaboration
Licences of article
Identifiers of article DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010351.pub2.www.cochranelibrary.com, ISBN: 1469-493X, ISSN: 1469-493X, PMID: 27207731


Quality assessment

Quality measure Details Score Comments
QA question 1 Are the research questions and inclusion criteria for the review clearly delineated? 1 = “Yes” = Who (Population), What (Intervention, Comparator group, Outcome), Where and When described. general but concrete description of aims
QA question 2 Did the report of the review contain an explicit statement that the review methods were established prior to the conduct of the review and did the report justify any significant deviations from the protocol? 0.5 = “Can’t answer / not sure / partially” = Cannot decide between “yes” and “no”, basing on the information provided in the paper. Only partial description protcol mentioned in Section 3.1.1, but not clear what it included
QA question 3 Did the review authors explain their selection of the study designs for inclusion in the review? 1 = “Yes” = explicit justification of the study designs/types included in the review. systematic reviews; justified
QA question 4 Did the review authors use a comprehensive literature search strategy? 1 = “Yes” = searched at least 2 databases (relevant to research question), provided key word and/or search strategy, justified publication restrictions (e.g. language), AND searched the reference lists / bibliographies of included studies, searched trial/study registries, included/consulted content experts in the field, where relevant, searched for grey literature, conducted search within 24 months of completion of the review. 5 databeses, snowballing, references
QA question 5 Did the review authors perform study selection in duplicate? 1 = “Yes” = either ONE of the following: at least two reviewers independently agreed on selection of eligible studies and achieved consensus on which studies to include OR two reviewers selected a sample of eligible studies and achieved good agreement (at least 80%), with the remainder selected by one reviewer. Two independent reviewers involved
QA question 6 Did the review authors perform data extraction in duplicate? 0.5 = “Can’t answer / not sure / partially” = Cannot decide between “yes” and “no”, basing on the information provided in the paper. Two reviewers involved, not independent
QA question 7 Did the review authors provide a list of excluded studies and justify the exclusions? 0 =”No” = No list of studies excluded at a full-text stage. not provided
QA question 8 Did the review authors describe the included studies in adequate detail? 1 = “Yes” = ALL the following: Who (Population), What (Intervention, Comparator group, Outcome), Where and When described in detail. Table 3
QA question 9 Did the review authors use a satisfactory technique for assessing the risk of bias (RoB) in individual studies that were included in the review? 0 =”No” = no mention of RoB assessment of individual included studies. not provided
QA question 10 Did the review authors report on the sources of funding for the studies included in the review? 0 =”No” = no report of the sources of funding for individual studies included in the review. not provided
QA question 11 If meta-analysis was performed did the review authors use appropriate methods for statistical combination of results? N/A no meta-analysis
QA question 12 If meta-analysis was performed, did the review authors assess the potential impact of RoB in individual studies on the results of the meta-analysis or other evidence synthesis? N/A no meta-analysis
QA question 13 Did the review authors account for RoB in individual studies when interpreting/ discussing the results of the review? 0 =”No” = no discussion of the potential impact of RoB in individual studies. not provided
QA question 14 Did the review authors provide a satisfactory explanation for, and discussion of, any heterogeneity observed in the results of the review? 1 = “Yes” = There was no significant heterogeneity in the results OR if heterogeneity was present the authors performed an investigation of sources of any heterogeneity in the results and discussed the impact of this on the results of the review. general discussion
QA question 15 If they performed quantitative synthesis did the review authors carry out an adequate investigation of publication bias (small study bias) and discuss its likely impact on the results of the review? N/A no meta-analysis
QA question 16 Did the review authors report any potential sources of conflict of interest, including any funding they received for conducting the review? 1 = “Yes” = The authors reported no competing interests OR the authors described their funding sources and how they managed potential conflicts of interest. Funding sources disclosed in "Acknowledgemets"
Quality index Overall rating (Quality Index) assigned to each SR, highlighting whether major concerns arose during quality assessment that may affect overall conclusions of a SR: A = Minimal flaws; B = Some flaws; C = Major flaws in many aspects of the review. B some details missing, some bias might be present
Suggested review type Actual review type:systematic map, systematic review, rapid review, scoping review, narrative review, etc. systematic review (meta-review) N/A
Risk of bias level How likely are the main conclusions of the review to be biased? Basing on review type and quality index and quality_index_comment assign: high moderate or low risk? medium no protocol, bias not assessed for individual studies