Measuring Green Space Effects on Attention and Stress in Children and Youth: A Scoping Review

The complex relationship between greenspace and well‐being in children with and without autism

“…While there are some fairly large school-based attention research studies that have been framed as wellbeing (e.g., Dadvand et al, 2015) most of these use in vivo cognitive attention measures or questionnaires designed to measure ADHD symptoms (for review, see McKormick, 2017). Additionally, while some studies include vital socio-demographics such as SES, race, and insurance status, and behavioral co-variates known to correlate with both greenspace and wellbeing (e.g., conduct problems, anxiety), many do not (Barger et al, 2021). Thus, by employing a large nationally representative sample this study had the power to control for a variety of important co-variates that smaller clinical studies often are not able to include their models.…”

“…Additionally, although some studies include vital sociodemographics such as SES, race and insurance status and behavioural covariates known to correlate with both greenspace and well‐being (e.g. conduct problems and anxiety), many do not (Barger et al, 2021). Thus, by employing a large nationally representative sample, this study had the power to control for a variety of important covariates that smaller clinical studies often are not able to include their models.…”

“…Thus, by employing a large nationally representative sample, this study had the power to control for a variety of important covariates that smaller clinical studies often are not able to include their models. Furthermore, the vast majority of greenspace well‐being research studies using scales or cognitive measures are from samples of typically developing samples or populations of children with ADHD (Barger et al, 2021; McCormick, 2017). In recent years, studies investigating associations between greenspace and developmental outcomes in children with ASD and CSHCN have begun to emerge but have only reported results on binary outcomes such as the presence of anxiety, conduct problems or an ASD diagnosis (Barger et al, 2020; Wu & Jackson, 2017).…”