Ringgold 576021, GreeneWorks, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, USA.
BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 18;11(3):e043845. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043845.
The global development agenda reflects greater attention to ending child marriage and supporting adolescent girls than ever before. Limited understandings of the evidence base on child marriage, however, make it challenging to assess gaps in the literature and inform policy and programming to respond to the needs of adolescent girls. The goal of this project is to systematically identify, evaluate and synthesise the global evidence on child marriage.
We will include articles with a thematic focus on child marriage from all geographic settings, two decades of research (2000-2019) and in four languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese). We will search 18 electronic academic databases (7 in English and 4 each in French, Spanish and Portuguese, with 1 overlapping database) and for the grey literature, conduct targeted hand-searches of organisations engaged in work to prevent child marriage. The databases for studies in English are PubMed, PsychINFO, Embase, CINAHL Plus, Popline, Web of Science and Cochrane Library; for studies in French, the databases will be DialNet, Directory of Open Access Journals, Science Direct and Biblioteca CCG-IBT database; in Spanish, DialNet, La Biblioteca Científica Electrónica en Línea, Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico and Jstor and in Portuguese, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, Biblioteca Científica Eletrônica On-line and Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações. We will also review reference lists of select articles and seek input from key authors, field practitioners and participants in international convenings. We will collect and analyse data on publication characteristics, including type of document, institutional affiliation, publication year, language, focus country and region, study objective, specific focus, research method, key findings and recommendations of the material offered for future work. The database searches for publications in English were conducted in January 2020 and we plan to complete the searches in French, Spanish and Portuguese in early 2021.
As a systematic review of already-published data, this study does not raise ethical or safety concerns. The authors plan to publish the results of the scoping review in a relevant international journal as well as present the results widely following publication. Building on this foundational work, the authors plan to conduct analyses that make use of the rich data.
The study design adheres to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Our protocol was registered with Open Science Framework on 14 January 2020 (https://osf.io/awh8v).
全球发展议程比以往任何时候都更加关注结束童婚并支持少女。然而，对童婚证据基础的理解有限，这使得评估文献中的差距并为应对少女需求制定政策和方案具有挑战性。本项目的目标是系统地确定、评估和综合全球关于童婚的证据。
我们将纳入来自所有地理环境、二十年研究（2000-2019 年）和四种语言（英语、西班牙语、法语和葡萄牙语）的主题重点关注童婚的文章。我们将搜索 18 个电子学术数据库（英语数据库 7 个，法语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语数据库各 4 个，其中 1 个数据库重叠）和灰色文献，针对从事预防童婚工作的组织进行有针对性的手工搜索。英语研究的数据库是 PubMed、PsychINFO、Embase、CINAHL Plus、Popline、Web of Science 和 Cochrane Library；法语数据库是 DialNet、Directory of Open Access Journals、Science Direct 和 Biblioteca CCG-IBT 数据库；西班牙语是 DialNet、La Biblioteca Científica Electrónica en Línea、Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico 和 Jstor；葡萄牙语是 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior、Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde、Biblioteca Científica Eletrônica On-line 和 Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações。我们还将审查选定文章的参考文献，并征求关键作者、实地从业者和国际会议与会者的意见。我们将收集和分析关于出版物特征的数据，包括文件类型、机构隶属关系、出版年份、语言、重点国家和地区、研究目标、具体重点、研究方法、材料的主要发现和建议，以用于未来的工作。英语出版物的数据库搜索于 2020 年 1 月进行，我们计划于 2021 年初完成法语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语的搜索。
作为对已发表数据的系统审查，本研究不存在伦理或安全问题。作者计划在相关国际期刊上发表范围界定审查的结果，并在发表后广泛介绍结果。在这项基础工作的基础上，作者计划进行利用丰富数据的分析。
研究设计遵循系统评价和荟萃分析扩展的首选报告项目，适用于范围界定综述。我们的方案于 2020 年 1 月 14 日在开放科学框架上注册（https://osf.io/awh8v）。
