Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Abstract

Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence (Review)

Review: Experiences of healthcare transitions for young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review of qualitative research

“…Quality was appraised using the Wallace criteria to determine the appropriateness of the method and quality of reporting (Wallace, Croucher, Quilgars, & Baldwin, ), see Table . This has been used in previous qualitative reviews (Greaves, Poltawski, Garside, & Briscoe, ; Husk, Lovell, Cooper, Stahl‐Timmins, & Garside, ; Moore et al., ), and covers research question, theoretical perspective, study design, context, sampling, data collection, data analysis, reflexivity, generalisability and ethics. Studies were assigned ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘can't tell’ for desirable and essential criteria which generated an overall score of ‘good’, ‘moderate’ or ‘poor’ (Husk et al., ).…”

Supplementary search methods were more effective and offered better value than bibliographic database searching: A case study from public health and environmental enhancement

“…Contribution to the synthesis was evaluated by re‐examining the qualitative synthesis (eg, the documentation of the results of each of the individual stages of the qualitative synthesis) to understand which papers substantively contributed data, concepts and understanding to identification and development of the overarching themes and sub‐themes. The synthesis of qualitative studies as reported in our Cochrane Review was used . Once each paper's contribution to the overarching and sub‐themes was identified in the synthesis, we determined which studies were (1) fundamental and necessary to the specific overarching and/or sub‐theme (we term these key studies ) and (2) which papers merely added confirmatory validity or data richness (we term these additional studies ).…”

“…These 22 databases included the following: MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid) and The Cochrane Library (Wiley interface) as well as Social Policy and Practice (Ovid), IBSS (Pro Quest) and ASSIA (Pro Quest), CAB Abstracts and Greenfile. The full list of bibliographic databases searched, and our MEDLINE search strategy, is included in the published Cochrane Review . The Trial Search Co‐Ordinator of The Cochrane Public Health Group checked and approved our searches.…”

“…The findings of the qualitative studies were used to understand the links, as perceived by participants, between participation in environmental enhancement activities and health and wellbeing outcomes …”

“On their own”: social isolation, loneliness and chronic musculoskeletal pain in older adults

“…Such interventions should be tailored, not only to an individual's desires and goals towards socially engagement, but to how social isolation relates to their personal musculoskeletal pain experiences and beliefs. Whilst such strategies may be costly to both health and social care services (Husk et al, 2016;Mossabir et al, 2015), this may be offset through reduced health and service care burden in accident and emergency admissions, formal and informal carer costs and reduced primary and secondary care utilisations (Husk et al, 2016;Landeiro et al, 2016;Lim et al, 2006;Mossabir et al, 2015). Through this, biopsychosocial features of an individual's disease can be sufficiently addressed for sustainable improvements in symptom management and social engagement.…”