MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, 99 Barkley Street, Glasgow, G3 7HR, UK.
Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Health Place. 2023 Jan;79:102967. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102967. Epub 2023 Jan 2.
Outdoor and nature experiences including play have been shown to be beneficial for children's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. Parents/carers play an important role in encouraging or impeding their child's access to the outdoor environment and participation in outdoor play. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on free movement and social interactions placed an unprecedented pressure on families to manage the drastic change in their daily routines. This paper reports findings from two combined data sets generated in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides a deeper understanding of the interconnected nature of how contextual factors influence parenting processes and outcomes relating to young children's outdoor and nature experiences and subsequent child health. Findings have the potential to inform the messaging of existing outdoor play policies and the content of new interventions aiming to promote the exposure of children to the natural outdoor environment.
户外和自然体验，包括游戏，已被证明对儿童的身体、认知、社会和情感发展有益。父母/照顾者在鼓励或阻碍孩子接触户外环境和参与户外游戏方面发挥着重要作用。COVID-19 大流行和相关的自由行动和社会互动限制给家庭带来了前所未有的压力，需要管理日常生活的巨大变化。本文报告了 2020 年 COVID-19 大流行期间两个合并数据集的调查结果，更深入地了解了背景因素如何相互影响与幼儿户外和自然体验以及随后的儿童健康相关的育儿过程和结果。研究结果有可能为现有的户外游戏政策提供信息，并为旨在促进儿童接触自然户外环境的新干预措施提供内容。
