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

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

SUBMITTER: Skelton K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896344 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature