A systematic review of interventions that have the potential to foster engaged fathering to enhance children's health and development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatch W. Kalembo ◽  
Garth E. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health And Development

scholarly journals Sand Play for 0–8-Year-Old Children’s Health and Development: A Systematic Review Protocol

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10112
Author(s):  
Susanna Iivonen ◽  
Titta Kettukangas ◽  
Anne Soini ◽  
Helena Viholainen
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Quality Assessments

Sand play may be a significant determinant of health and development in early childhood, but systematically synthesised evidence is absent in the literature. The main objective of this study was to present a planned methodology to systematically review, and synthesise, the evidence regarding sand play and its associations with 0–8-year-old children’s health and development. The systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols statement was registered to PROSPERO (CRD42021253852). Literature searches will be conducted using information from eight electronic databases. Studies will be included when participating children were aged 0–8 years, settings provided children with exposure to sand environments and/or materials, and child-level outcomes related to physical, cognitive, and/or social–emotional health and development. The search results will be imported to software; duplicates will be removed; and independent double screening, and study quality assessments using appropriate tools, will be conducted. Synthesis without meta-analysis will be conducted for quantitative studies similar in exposure, outcome, and content analysis to qualitative studies. Our overall confidence in each review finding will be assessed. The findings of this systematic review can inform policy makers and early childhood education teachers about the associations between sand play and children’s health and development, and its impact in practice.

scholarly journals Blending Indigenous Sharing Circle and Western Focus Group Methodologies for the Study of Indigenous Children’s Health: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110151
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Hunt ◽  
Nancy L. Young
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Community Advisory Board ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sharing Circles

The primary objective of this systematic review was to investigate how Western focus groups and Indigenous sharing circles have been blended for the study of Indigenous children’s health. The secondary objective of this study was to propose recommendations for adapting focus groups to include elements of sharing circles. This systematic review was conducted using a systematic search of original research articles published between 2009 and 2020 that (a) focused on North American Indigenous children’s health and (b) used group-based qualitative methods including focus groups and sharing circles. Each of the articles was screened for relevance and quality. The methods sections were reviewed, subjected to qualitative content analysis, and codes were analyzed to identify common themes and synthesize results. We identified 29 articles, most of which followed a community-based participatory research approach. In these publications, most included a community advisory board, ethics approval was obtained, and in some cases, community members were included as research assistants. There was evidence that sharing circles and focus group methods had been blended in the recent Indigenous children’s health literature. This was particularly apparent in the authors’ approaches to recruitment, location, facilitation techniques, question format and reimbursement. Several groups have published results that describe approaches that successfully incorporated aspects of Indigenous sharing circles into Western focus groups, thus establishing a research method that is culturally safe and appropriate for the study of Indigenous children’s health.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of pretend medical play in improving children’s health outcomes and well-being: a systematic review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. e041506
Author(s):  
Aneesa Abdul Rashid ◽  
Ai Theng Cheong ◽  
Ranita Hisham ◽  
Nurainul Hana Shamsuddin ◽  
Dalila Roslan
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Case Control Studies ◽  
Anxiety Levels

BackgroundThe healthcare setting is stressful for many people, especially children. Efforts are needed to mitigate children’s healthcare-related anxiety. Medical play using the Teddy Bear Hospital (TBH) concept can expose children to healthcare settings and help them develop positive experiences in these settings. In this role-playing game, children bring their soft toys and act as parents to the ‘sick’ teddies in a pretend hospital or clinic play setting. The objective of this systematic review is to evaluate the effectiveness of the TBH in improving children’s health outcomes and well-being.MethodsWe searched the reference lists of included studies from four electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus and Google Scholar) from inception until November 2020. We included pre-post, quasiexperimental and case–control studies, as well as randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that discussed medical play using the TBH concept as an intervention. Studies that involved sick patients and used interventions unlike the TBH were excluded. We assessed the quality of the included studies using the Cochrane Collaboration’s ‘Risk of bias’ tool.ResultsTen studies were included in this systematic review. Five specifically investigated the TBH method, while the others involved the same concept of medical play. Only three studies were RCTs. All of the studies report more than one outcome—mostly positive outcomes. Two report lower anxiety levels after intervention. Two found better healthcare knowledge, with one reporting increased feelings of happiness regarding visiting a doctor. Two studies found no change in anxiety or feelings, while another two found increased levels of fear and lowered mood after the medical play (which involved real medical equipment).ConclusionsThe practice of TBH has mostly positive outcomes, with lower anxiety levels and improved healthcare knowledge. Its effectiveness should be verified in future studies using a more robust methodology.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019106355.

Nature Contact and Children's Health: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber L. Fyfe-Johnson ◽  
Edgar K. Marcuse ◽  
Pooja Tandon ◽  
Marnie Hazlehurst ◽  
Gregory N. Bratman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Nature Contact

The impact of heat waves on children’s health: a systematic review

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Xu ◽  
Perry E. Sheffield ◽  
Hong Su ◽  
Xiaoyu Wang ◽  
Yan Bi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
The Impact

Understanding ParentCorps’ Essential Elements for Building Adult Capacity to Support Young Children’s Health and Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Spring Dawson-McClure ◽  
Dana Rhule ◽  
Kai-ama Hamer ◽  
Esther Calzada ◽  
Bukky Kolawole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health And Development

scholarly journals Representing anxious parents in China: A study of Parenting Science magazine 1980–2016

2019 ◽  
pp. 136754941985682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian (Sarah) Gong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Parental Practices ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Sociology Of Health ◽  
Science Magazine ◽  
Anxious Parenting

This article analyses the representation of parental practices in Parenting Science, the first and longest running parenting magazine published in China since 1980. Drawing on Foucault’s work on governmentality and biopolitics as well as their current development in cultural studies and sociology of health, this article critically investigates the cultural frames that surround parental practices relating to the health and development of young children. It explores how issues of medicalisation, intensive parenting, responsibility and self-management are represented in the magazine, ‘reflecting’ as well as ‘reinforcing’ dominant cultural ideas of parenting and childrearing in China. Based on a qualitative content analysis of 2295 items from 37 issues of the magazine (1980–2016), including editorials, feature stories, standard articles, Q&As, adverts and other short items, this article has identified three major frames of parental practices in monitoring and facilitating children’s health, development and wellbeing: (1) the medicalisation of children’s health problems, (2) the rise of expert authority and (3) the responsibilisation of parents. This article argues that these frames underpin the construction of an intensive and anxious parenting culture in China and serve as powerful tools of biopolitical control.

WORKING TO EXIT POVERTY WHILE CARING FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong H. Vo ◽  
Kate Penrose ◽  
S. Jody Heymann
Keyword(s):  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health And Development
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