CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
aculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2023 Mar;43(3):139-150. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.3.04.
Since 2015, there has been growing interest in Canada and beyond on the benefits of outdoor play for physical, emotional, social and environmental health, wellbeing and development, for adults as well as children and youth.
This scoping review aims to answer the question, "How, and in what context, is adult-oriented outdoor play being studied in Canada?" We conducted an electronic search for peer-reviewed articles on outdoor play published in English or French after September 2015 by authors from Canadian institutions or about Canadian adults. The 224 retrieved articles were organized according to eight priorities: health, well-being and development; outdoor play environments; safety and outdoor play; cross-sectoral connections; equity, diversity and inclusion; professional development; Indigenous Peoples and land-based outdoor play; and COVID-19. We tallied the study designs and measurement methods used.
The most common priority was outdoor play environments; the least common were COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples and land-based outdoor play. Cross-sectional studies were the most common; no rapid reviews were identified. Sample sizes varied from one auto-ethnographic reflection to 147 000 zoo visitor datapoints. More studies used subjective than objective measurement methods. Environmental health was the most common outcome and mental/emotional development was the least.
There has been a staggering amount of articles published on adult-oriented outdoor play in Canada since 2015. Knowledge gaps remain in the relationship between outdoor play and adult mental/emotional development; the connections between environmental health and Indigenous cultures and traditions; and how to balance promoting outdoor unstructured play with protecting and preserving natural spaces.
自 2015 年以来，加拿大乃至其他地区越来越关注户外游戏对身体、情感、社会和环境健康、福祉和发展的益处，无论是对儿童和青少年，还是对成年人而言。
本范围界定审查旨在回答以下问题：“在加拿大，成人导向的户外游戏是如何以及在什么背景下进行研究的？”我们针对加拿大机构的作者或关于加拿大成年人的在 2015 年 9 月之后以英文或法文发表的户外游戏同行评审文章进行了电子搜索。检索到的 224 篇文章根据以下八项优先事项进行了组织：健康、福祉和发展；户外游戏环境；安全和户外游戏；跨部门联系；公平、多样性和包容性；专业发展；原住民和基于土地的户外游戏；以及 COVID-19。我们统计了使用的研究设计和测量方法。
最常见的优先事项是户外游戏环境；最不常见的是 COVID-19 和原住民和基于土地的户外游戏。横断面研究最为常见；没有确定快速综述。样本量从一个自传式反思到 147000 个动物园游客数据点不等。使用主观测量方法的研究多于客观测量方法。环境健康是最常见的结果，而心理/情绪发展是最不常见的结果。
自 2015 年以来，加拿大已经发表了大量关于成人导向户外游戏的文章。在户外游戏与成人心理/情绪发展之间的关系、环境健康与原住民文化和传统之间的联系以及如何平衡促进户外无组织游戏与保护和保护自然空间方面，仍存在知识差距。
