Association of the built environment with physical activity in children and adolescents in Africa: a systematic review protocol

Adebusoye, Busola; Phalkey, Revati; Leonardi-Bee, Jo; Chattopadhyay, Kaushik

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this systematic review is to summarize the association of the built environment with physical activity in children and adolescents in Africa.
Introduction: Physical activity offers immense benefits to children and adolescents. Some built environment constructs such as the availability of parks and street connectivity have been identified to facilitate physical activity in children and adolescents, these evidence have however come from developed countries. This review will present evidence from Africa on the built environment constructs that facilitate physical activity in children and adolescents.
Inclusion criteria: This review shall include quantitative studies that have built environment constructs as one of their exposure variables and physical activity as one of their outcomes done in children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years residing in Africa.
Methods: A systematic search of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science and other databases will be conducted to locate both published and unpublished studies. There will be no date or language restrictions. Titles abstracts and full text of articles retrieved from the search will be screened and read by two reviewers independently for eligibility; Included articles will be critically appraised independently by two reviewers. Data extraction will be done in two phases, first for data specific information regarding the study characteristics and secondly specific study findings will be extracted. Meta-analysis will be used to synthesize the findings from the studies; however, where this is not possible a narrative synthesis will be performed.
Systematic Review registration number: CRD42019133324

Citation

Adebusoye, B., Phalkey, R., Leonardi-Bee, J., & Chattopadhyay, K. (2020). Association of the built environment with physical activity in children and adolescents in Africa: a systematic review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 18(3), 553-563. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00162

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 3, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 20, 2019
• Publication Date: 2020-03
• Deposit Date: Nov 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 21, 2020
• Journal: JBI Evidence Synthesis
• Electronic ISSN: 2689-8381
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 553-563
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00162
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3195546
• Publisher URL: https://journals.lww.com/jbisrir/Fulltext/2020/03000/Association_of_the_built_environment_with_physical.8.aspx