Attractive Playgrounds: Some Factors Affecting User Interest and Visiting Patterns

Does Playground Improvement Increase Physical Activity among Children? A Quasi-Experimental Study of a Natural Experiment

“…Thus, the equipment appears to have stimulated attraction but not to play a role in continued playground use. This agrees with a recent study [46] which found unique equipment merely fosters interest in, but not usage of, public playgrounds.…”

Do children create standardized playgrounds? A study on the gap-crossing affordances of jumping stones

“…Yet over the last decades, contemporary playgrounds have received serious critique (e.g., Jansson, 2010;Woolley, 2008). Hart (2002), for instance, stated that playgrounds fail to "satisfy the complexity of children's developmental needs" (Hart, 2002, p. 135).…”

Research Foundations for Evidence-Informed Early Childhood Intervention Performance Checklists

“…The research foundations for the five environmental practices are listed in Appendix B. The majority of evidence is from research syntheses; for example, [197][198][199][200] where findings from individual studies add to the knowledge base about which practice characteristics under which conditions are associated with intended practice outcomes; for example, [201][202][203]. Most of the evidence is specific to particular checklist practices whereas several research syntheses include evidence for two checklist practices [204][205][206].…”

“…The research foundations for the two physical activity practices checklists (Child Physical Activity Checklist and Environmental Arrangements Checklist) include evidence about the types of interventions that have been found effective for engaging young children in active play, movement, exercise, and other physical activity; for example, [248][249][250][251][252][253][254] and both the naturally occurring; for example, [197,202,255] and planned; for example, Tremblay et al [256] environmental arrangements that encourage children's physical activity. Jansson [202] and Sugiyama et al [255], for example, found that different features of indoor and outdoor spaces were associated with variations in child participation and engagement in everyday activities.…”

“…The research foundations for the two physical activity practices checklists (Child Physical Activity Checklist and Environmental Arrangements Checklist) include evidence about the types of interventions that have been found effective for engaging young children in active play, movement, exercise, and other physical activity; for example, [248][249][250][251][252][253][254] and both the naturally occurring; for example, [197,202,255] and planned; for example, Tremblay et al [256] environmental arrangements that encourage children's physical activity. Jansson [202] and Sugiyama et al [255], for example, found that different features of indoor and outdoor spaces were associated with variations in child participation and engagement in everyday activities. Findings from research syntheses of the relationships between child physical activity and child behavioral outcomes; for example, Bower et al [250], Ward et al [254], Ahn and Fedews [257], Hinkley et al [258] and interventions to increase child engagement in physical activity and exercise; for example, Brown et al [204], Campbell and Hesketh [248], Kreichauf et al [252] also include the research evidence for the child physical activity practices.…”