Sand Play for 0–8-Year-Old Children’s Health and Development: A Systematic Review Protocol
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Aggregate studies examining 0–8-year-old children’s sand play;
- Explore what determinants of child health and development are affected by, or associated with, sand play.
2. Material and Methods
2.1. Eligibility Criteria
2.1.1. Study Designs
2.1.2. Participants
2.1.3. Interventions/Exposures and Comparators
2.1.4. Outcomes
2.1.5. Settings
2.2. Information Retrieval
2.2.1. Information Sources
- CINAHL (EBSCO)
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
- ERIC (ProQuest)
- Medline (ProQuest)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO)
- PsycINFO (EBSCO)
2.2.2. Search Strategy and Study Records
2.2.3. Selection Process and Data Extraction
2.2.4. Data Collection Process
- Study details.
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- Quantitative: author(s), year, geographical location (i.e., country), study design (e.g., longitudinal, cross sectional).
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- Qualitative: author(s), year, geographical location (i.e., country), study design (e.g., ethnographic, narrative research, historical, case study, phenomenology), and study aims.
- Participants: age, sample size, gender, and background information.
- Intervention/exposure: description, duration, and follow-up.
- Data collection methods.
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- Quantitative: assessment and analysis methods (e.g., accelerometers, direct observation), and time point of assessment.
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- Qualitative: methodology (e.g., interviews, focus groups), and method of analysis.
- Findings.
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- Quantitative: outcome findings (outcome unit, effect estimates, standard deviations, confidence intervals, direction of effect, statistical significance, etc.) and conclusions drawn from the findings by the authors of the study.
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- Qualitative: summary of findings and conclusions drawn from the findings by the authors of the study.
2.3. Quality Assessment of Included Studies
2.4. Data Synthesis
2.4.1. Synthesis of Quantitative Studies
2.4.2. Synthesis of Qualitative Studies
2.4.3. Synthesis of Mixed-Methods Studies
2.4.4. Summary Syntheses
2.5. Strength of the Body of Evidence
3. Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Iivonen, S.; Kettukangas, T.; Soini, A.; Viholainen, H. Sand Play for 0–8-Year-Old Children’s Health and Development: A Systematic Review Protocol. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10112. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910112
Iivonen S, Kettukangas T, Soini A, Viholainen H. Sand Play for 0–8-Year-Old Children’s Health and Development: A Systematic Review Protocol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(19):10112. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910112
Chicago/Turabian StyleIivonen, Susanna, Titta Kettukangas, Anne Soini, and Helena Viholainen. 2021. "Sand Play for 0–8-Year-Old Children’s Health and Development: A Systematic Review Protocol" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19: 10112. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910112