Thomson_2013 - Housing improvements for health and associated socio- economic outcomes ( Review ) Housing improvements for health and associated socio- economic outcomes

Basic Article Info:

Article key Thomson_2013
Title Housing improvements for health and associated socio- economic outcomes ( Review ) Housing improvements for health and associated socio- economic outcomes
Year 2013
Review type meta-analysis
Main topic Health and social impacts on residents following improvements to the physical fabric of housing
Subjects area(s) Buildings, construction and facilities, Health and well-being
Built environment scale Building system
Application(s) Policy making, Practice, Human interactions and community engagement, Implementation, Design, Evaluation
Geographically focused no
Prisma diagram used no
Study focus start not mentioned
Study focus end 2012
Search string A detailed list of search strings used with different databases are given in Appendix 7. The following is a list of search strings used with Web of Science only: #1 Approximately 866,920 Topic=(house*) OR Topic=(home*) OR Topic=(apartment*) OR Topic=(bungalow*) OR Topic=(dwellings) OR Topic=(housing) OR Topic=(rehous*) OR Topic=(tenant*) OR Topic=(highrise*) OR Topic=(high rise*) OR Topic=(indoor air qualit*) OR Topic=(living environment*) OR Topic=(living quarter*) OR Topic=(multistor*) OR Topic=(owner occup*) OR Topic=(towerblock*) Timespan=2009-2012 Search language=English Lemmatization=Off # 2 Approximately 3,289,811 Topic=(health) OR Topic=(illness*) OR Topic=(medical condition*) OR Topic=(mortalit*) OR Topic=(psychological) OR Topic=(psychiatr*) OR Topic=(mental*) OR Topic=(allergen*) OR Topic=(asthma) OR Topic=(death) OR Topic=(depression) OR Topic=(deprivation) OR Topic=(life expectancy) OR Topic=(life satisfaction) OR Topic=(qol) OR Topic=(quality of life) OR Topic=(respirat*) OR Topic=(sick*) OR Topic=(symptom*) Timespan=2009-2012 Search language=English Lemmatization=Off # 3 Approximately 8,098,086 Topic=(trial*) OR Topic=(random*) OR Topic=(controlled) OR Topic=(study) OR Topic=(studies) OR Topic=(intervention) OR Topic=(longitudinal) OR Topic=(prospective) Timespan=2009-2012 Search language=English Lemmatization=Off # 4 Approximately 2,165,851 Topic=(worse*) OR Topic=(intervention*) OR Topic=(impact*) OR Topic=(harmful) OR Topic=(gain*) OR Topic=(changing) OR Topic=(better) Timespan=2009-2012 Search language=English Lemmatization=Off # 5 Approximately 53,005 #4 AND #3 AND #2 AND #1 Timespan=2009-2012 Search language=English Lemmatization=Off Just housing AND health gets 7,426 Limited to 2009-2012
No. of original sources 77
Synthesis method qualitative + quantitative
Quantitative map included yes
Conflict of interest not declared specifically
Comments A comprehensive list of search terms used with different search databases are given in Appendix 7. Only the search terms used in Web of Science are coded here. Scope of the review is international, however the selection of specific databases from specific regions and countries might have added a geographical bias.

 

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Keywords used in search allergence, apartment, asthma, better, bunglow, changing, controlled, death, depression, deprivation, dwellings, gain, harmful, health, highriser, home, house, housing, illness, impact, indoor air quality, intervention, life expectancy, life satisfaction, living environment, living quarter, longitudinal, martality, medical condition, mental, multistory, owner occupied, phycological, prospective, psychiatric, qol, quality of life, random, rehousing, respiration, sick, studies, study, symptom, tenant, tower block, trial, worse

 

Authorship

Authors
Name Email Organisation Address Country
Hilary Thomson* hilary@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council Glasgow United Kingdom
Hilary Thomson* hilary@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit Glasgow United Kingdom
Hilary Thomson* hilary@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow 200 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK United Kingdom
Sian Thomas Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council Glasgow United Kingdom
Sian Thomas MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow 200 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK United Kingdom
Eva Sellstrom 2Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University Östersund Sweden
Eva Sellstrom Department of Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Ostersund Mid Sweden University HLV SE-831 25 Östersund Sweden
Mark Petticrew Department of Social&Environmental Health Research, Faculty of PublicHealth&Policy, London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine London United Kingdom
Mark Petticrew MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow 200 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK United Kingdom
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HT, UK United Kingdom

 

Funding

Funding sources No funding sources recorded


Article publication information:

Article type Journal article
Article category Text
Geographical scale International
Language English
Chapter or part
Conference date
Conference venue
Published date 2013-02-28
Edition
Issue 2
Journal The 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
Website owner
Copyrights of article The Cochrane Collaboration
Licences of article
Identifiers of article DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008657.pub2.Copyright


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? 1 = “Yes” = Who (Population), What (Intervention, Comparator group, Outcome), Where and When described. mentioned a protocol approved by The Campbell Collaboration in late 2004
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. experimental studies and uncontrolled studies; due lack of data from randomised trials data from uncontrolled studies may be considered valuable to establish the nature and extent of the effects of housing interventions
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. Twenty seven academic and grey literature bibliographic databases, experts; not restricted by language or publication status
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. screened and critically appraised by two review author
QA question 6 Did the review authors perform data extraction in duplicate? 1 = “Yes” = either ONE of the following: at least two reviewers achieved consensus on which data to extract from included studies OR two reviewers extracted data from a sample of eligible studies and achieved good agreement (at least 8 %), with the remainder extracted by one reviewer. Data were extracted by one review author and checked by a second review author
QA question 7 Did the review authors provide a list of excluded studies and justify the exclusions? 1 = “Yes” = provided a list of all potentially relevant studies that were read in full-text form but excluded from the review AND justified the exclusion from the review of each potentially relevant study. Table 1, Appendix 9
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. descrabided in the text and tables
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? 1 = “Yes” = specifically mentions RoB assessment of individual included studies. Cochrane risk of bias (RoB) and Hamilton Assessment Tool used
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. no info on funding sources of individual included studies
QA question 11 If meta-analysis was performed did the review authors use appropriate methods for statistical combination of results? 1 = “Yes” = The authors justified combining the data in a meta-analysis AND they used an appropriate technique to combine study results and adjusted for heterogeneity if present AND investigated the causes of any heterogeneity or adjusted for heterogeneity or confounding if present. random-effects model in CMA software, heterogeneity investigated and analysis justified
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? 0.5 = “Can’t answer / not sure / partially” = searched at least 2 databases (relevant to research question), provided key word and/or general search strategy, justified publication restrictions (e.g., language).0.5 = “Can’t answer / not sure / partially” = Cannot decide between “yes” and “no”, basing on the information provided in the paper. Risk of bias discussed overall, but not in the context of the 2 meta-analysised studies specifically
QA question 13 Did the review authors account for RoB in individual studies when interpreting/ discussing the results of the review? 1 = “Yes” = included only low risk of bias studies OR the review provided a discussion of the likely impact of RoB on the results. specific studies refferred to in the discussion
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. detailed description and discusssion
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 only 2 studies included in meta-analysis, thus formal testing for publication bias not possible
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. Disclaimer provided in "Declarations of interest"
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. A very detailed and thorough sytematic review
Suggested review type Actual review type:systematic map, systematic review, rapid review, scoping review, narrative review, etc. meta-analysis 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? low very detailed and thorough sytematic review