Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress 2023 EHA Congress 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

A round-up of the ONWARDS phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the novel weekly insulin icodec in people with diabetes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Systematic Reviews
Published in: Systematic Reviews 1/2019

Open Access 01-12-2019 | Protocol

Garden-based interventions and early childhood health: a protocol for an umbrella review

Authors: Kara Skelton, Ann Herbert, Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon

Published in: Systematic Reviews | Issue 1/2019

Login to get access

Abstract

Background

Garden-based interventions have the potential to impact young children’s health in a number of ways, including enhancing dietary intake, increasing outdoor physical activity, diversifying the gut microbiome, and promoting general wellbeing. A number of recent systematic reviews have either included or focused on garden-based interventions for young children. However, most prior reviews including young children only focus on one health outcome or one setting, making a full summary of prior research assessing the impact of garden-based interventions nonexistent. As such, this umbrella systematic review aims to synthesize the literature on health outcomes of garden-based interventions for young children.

Methods

This protocol outlines the systematic steps we will take to conduct an umbrella review on health-related outcomes of garden-based interventions in children younger than 6 years of age. We will systematically search PubMed, PsycINFO, ERIC, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, OVID-Agricola, and CAB Direct, including all systematic reviews and meta-analyses fitting the pre-determined inclusion/exclusion criteria. We will double screen at each phase of the review: title/abstract, full text, data extraction, and quality appraisal. We will assess the quality of included reviews using A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR 2). Based on the potential for stark variability in what how reviews report child health outcomes, we will analyze the reviews both narratively and quantitatively, reporting summary of findings tables and iteratively mapping the results. This protocol aligns with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols statement (PRISMA-P).

Discussion

This umbrella review aims to summarize the role that garden-based interventions play in health promotion for young children. We will focus on a number of diverse child health outcomes in an effort to comprehensively synthesize the evidence to inform future garden-based interventions, research, and policy.

Systematic review registration

Appendix
Available only for authorised users
Literature
1.
Hanbazaza MA, Triador L, Ball GD, Farmer A, Maximova K, Alexander First N, et al. The impact of school gardening on Cree children’s knowledge and attitudes toward vegetables and fruit. Can J Diet Pract Res. 2015;76(3):133–9.CrossRef
2.
Morgan PJ, Warren JM, Lubans DR, Saunders KL, Quick GI, Collins CE. The impact of nutrition education with and without a school garden on knowledge, vegetable intake and preferences and quality of school life among primary-school students. Public Health Nutr. 2010;13(11):1931–40.CrossRef
3.
Parmer SM, Salisbury-Glennon J, Shannon D, Struempler B. School gardens: an experiential learning approach for a nutrition education program to increase fruit and vegetable knowledge, preference, and consumption among second-grade students. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2009;41(3):212–7.CrossRef
4.
Soga M, Gaston KJ, Yamaura Y. Gardening is beneficial for health: a meta-analysis. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2017;5:92–9.CrossRef
5.
Ozer EJ. The effects of school gardens on students and schools: conceptualization and considerations for maximizing healthy development. Health Educ Behav. 2007;34(6):846–63.CrossRef
6.
Robinson-O'Brien R, Story M, Heim S. Impact of garden-based youth nutrition intervention programs: a review. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009;109(2):273–80.CrossRef
7.
Wang D, MacMillan T. The benefits of gardening for older adults: a systematic review of the literature. Activities, Adaptation & Aging. 2013;37(2):153–81.CrossRef
8.
Ohly H, Gentry S, Wigglesworth R, Bethel A, Lovell R, Garside R. A systematic review of the health and well-being impacts of school gardening: synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence. BMC Public Health. 2016;16:286.CrossRef
9.
Nekitsing C, Blundell-Birtill P, Cockroft JE, Hetherington MM. Systematic review and meta-analysis of strategies to increase vegetable consumption in preschool children aged 2-5 years. Appetite. 2018;127:138–54.CrossRef
10.
Berezowitz C, Bontrager Yoder A, Schoeller D. School gardens enhance academic performance and dietary outcomes in children. Journal of School Health. 2015;85(8):508–18.CrossRef
11.
Savoie-Roskos MR, Wengreen H, Durward C. Increasing fruit and vegetable intake among children and youth through gardening-based interventions: a systematic review. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2017;117(2):240–50.CrossRef
12.
McCormick R. Does access to green space impact the mental well-being of children: a systematic review. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 2017;37:3–7.CrossRef
13.
Brouwer RJN, Neelon SEB. Watch Me Grow: a garden-based pilot intervention to increase vegetable and fruit intake in preschoolers. BMC public health. 2013;13(1):363.CrossRef
14.
Meinen A, Friese B, Wright W, Carrel A. Youth gardens increase healthy behaviors in young children. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 2012;7(2-3):192–204.CrossRef
15.
Castro DC, Samuels M, Harman AE. Growing healthy kids: a community garden-based obesity prevention program. Am J Prev Med. 2013;44(3 Suppl 3):S193–9.CrossRef
16.
Howard AJ, Mallan KM, Byrne R, Magarey A, Daniels LA. Toddlers’ food preferences. The impact of novel food exposure, maternal preferences and food neophobia. Appetite. 2012;59(3):818–25.CrossRef
17.
Nicklaus S, Remy E. Early origins of overeating: tracking between early food habits and later eating patterns. Current Obesity Reports. 2013;2(2):179–84.CrossRef
18.
Evans A, Ranjit N, Rutledge R, Medina JL, Jennings R, Smiley A, et al. Exposure to multiple components of a garden-based intervention for middle school students increases fruit and vegetable consumption. Health Promotion Practice. 2012.
19.
Flick KM. The application of a horticultural therapy program for preschool children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture. 2012;22(1).
20.
Blair CK, Madan-Swain A, Locher JL, Desmond RA, de Los SJ, Affuso O, et al. Harvest for health gardening intervention feasibility study in cancer survivors. Acta Oncologica. 2013;52(6):1110–8.CrossRef
21.
Blair D. The child in the garden: an evaluative review of the benefits of school gardening. The Journal of Environmental Education. 2009;40(2):15–38.CrossRef
22.
Appleton KM, Hemingway A, Saulais L, Dinnella C, Monteleone E, Depezay L, et al. Increasing vegetable intakes: rationale and systematic review of published interventions. European journal of nutrition. 2016;55(3):869–96.CrossRef
23.
Blair D. The child in the garden: an evaluative review of the benefits of school gardening. Program Evaluation. 2009;40(2):15–38.
24.
Hoffman JA, Schmidt EM, Wirth C, Johnson S, Sobell SA, Pelissier K, et al. Farm to preschool: the state of the research literature and a snapshot of national practice. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 2017;12(4):443–65.CrossRef
25.
Aromataris E, Fernandez RS, Godfrey C, Holly C, Khalil H, Tungpunkom P. Methodology for JBI umbrella reviews; 2014.
26.
Moher D, Shamseer L, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Liberati A, Petticrew M, et al. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic reviews. 2015;4(1):1.CrossRef
27.
Aromataris E, Fernandez R, Godfrey CM, Holly C, Khalil H, Tungpunkom P. Summarizing systematic reviews: methodological development, conduct and reporting of an umbrella review approach. International journal of evidence-based healthcare. 2015;13(3):132–40.CrossRef
28.
Sisson SB, Krampe M, Anundson K, Castle S. Obesity prevention and obesogenic behavior interventions in child care: a systematic review. Preventive medicine. 2016;87:57–69.CrossRef
29.
Shea BJ, Reeves BC, Wells G, Thuku M, Hamel C, Moran J, et al. AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both. bmj. 2017;358:j4008.CrossRef
30.
Shea BJ, Grimshaw JM, Wells GA, Boers M, Andersson N, Hamel C, et al. Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews. BMC medical research methodology. 2007;7(1):10.CrossRef
31.
Lewin S, Booth A, Glenton C, Munthe-Kaas H, Rashidian A, Wainwright M, et al. Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series. BioMed Central; 2018.
32.
33.
Pollock A, Campbell P, Brunton G, Hunt H, Estcourt L. Selecting and implementing overview methods: implications from five exemplar overviews. Systematic Reviews. 2017;6(1):145.CrossRef
34.
Pieper D, Antoine S-L, Mathes T, Neugebauer EAM, Eikermann M. Systematic review finds overlapping reviews were not mentioned in every other overview. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2014;67(4):368–75.CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Garden-based interventions and early childhood health: a protocol for an umbrella review
Authors
Kara Skelton
Ann Herbert
Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Systematic Reviews / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 2046-4053
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1229-8

Other articles of this Issue 1/2019

Systematic Reviews 1/2019 Go to the issue

Protocol

Effectiveness of trauma centers verification: Protocol for a systematic review

Protocol

Sonographic reference values of median nerve cross-sectional area: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Protocol

Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in people with acute respiratory tract infections in Africa: the VARIAFRICA systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Protocol

Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of young people-specific, integrated out-of-hospital services: a protocol for a systematic review

Research

The effectiveness of psychological interventions for fatigue in cancer survivors: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Protocol

Influence of external contextual factors on the implementation of health and social care interventions into practice within or across countries—a protocol for a ‘best fit’ framework synthesis