Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review
Introduction Where a person lives, the characteristics of their housing and neighbourhood environment influence their exposure to climate-related hazards and vulnerability to associated mental health impacts. This suggests that the built environment may be a promising focus for integrated policy res...
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| description | Introduction Where a person lives, the characteristics of their housing and neighbourhood environment influence their exposure to climate-related hazards and vulnerability to associated mental health impacts. This suggests that the built environment may be a promising focus for integrated policy responses to climate change and public mental health challenges. However, few empirical studies have focused on the role of the built environment as an important mediator of climate-attributable mental health burden. The proposed scoping review seeks to identify and synthesise existing conceptual models and frameworks linking climate change to mental health via built environment pathways. We aim to provide a preliminary overview of the housing and neighbourhood pathways through which climate change may impact mental health, which will inform future empirical work in this emerging area of research.Methods and analysis A systematic scoping review of the global peer-reviewed and grey literature will be conducted in accordance with Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework and Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. Included articles must present a conceptual model or framework incorporating relevant built environment pathways through which climate change may impact mental health and well-being. Relevant models and frameworks will be identified through systematic searches (for English-language reports) of Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and grey literature databases. Two reviewers will independently screen the article titles, abstracts and full texts, with conflicts resolved by a third reviewer. Data extraction will occur using a predefined template. The presentation of findings will conform to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews, including a narrative synthesis of the role of housing and neighbourhood factors in the relationship between climate change and mental health, as identified from the existing literature. The review will lay essential foundations for future empirical research and place-based policy responses to the mental health consequences of a changing climate.Ethics and dissemination The scoping review will be a secondary analysis of published data, for which ethics approval is not required. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and targeted distribution to stakeholders involved in climate change, built environment and health research and policymaking.Study registration Open Science Framework: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XR74C. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d2f73cefed684f70ba2b46440eb0a3da2025-08-20T03:07:31ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552025-04-0115410.1136/bmjopen-2024-093222Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping reviewMaree Teesson0Ross Bailie1Scarlett Smout2Emma L Barrett3Lexine A Stapinski4Lyrian Daniel5Marlee Bower6Lauren M Scott7Amarina Donohoe-Bales8Gareth Bryant9Edward Jegasothy10Shamila Haddad11Arianna Brambilla12Amanda Howard13Jo McClellan14Jon Swain15Laura McGrath16The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaUniversity Centre for Rural Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaUniversity of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaDiscipline of Political Economy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaTwo Things Consultancy, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaCity of Sydney Council, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaThe Open University, London, England, UKIntroduction Where a person lives, the characteristics of their housing and neighbourhood environment influence their exposure to climate-related hazards and vulnerability to associated mental health impacts. This suggests that the built environment may be a promising focus for integrated policy responses to climate change and public mental health challenges. However, few empirical studies have focused on the role of the built environment as an important mediator of climate-attributable mental health burden. The proposed scoping review seeks to identify and synthesise existing conceptual models and frameworks linking climate change to mental health via built environment pathways. We aim to provide a preliminary overview of the housing and neighbourhood pathways through which climate change may impact mental health, which will inform future empirical work in this emerging area of research.Methods and analysis A systematic scoping review of the global peer-reviewed and grey literature will be conducted in accordance with Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework and Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. Included articles must present a conceptual model or framework incorporating relevant built environment pathways through which climate change may impact mental health and well-being. Relevant models and frameworks will be identified through systematic searches (for English-language reports) of Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and grey literature databases. Two reviewers will independently screen the article titles, abstracts and full texts, with conflicts resolved by a third reviewer. Data extraction will occur using a predefined template. The presentation of findings will conform to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews, including a narrative synthesis of the role of housing and neighbourhood factors in the relationship between climate change and mental health, as identified from the existing literature. The review will lay essential foundations for future empirical research and place-based policy responses to the mental health consequences of a changing climate.Ethics and dissemination The scoping review will be a secondary analysis of published data, for which ethics approval is not required. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and targeted distribution to stakeholders involved in climate change, built environment and health research and policymaking.Study registration Open Science Framework: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XR74C.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/4/e093222.full |
| spellingShingle | Maree Teesson Ross Bailie Scarlett Smout Emma L Barrett Lexine A Stapinski Lyrian Daniel Marlee Bower Lauren M Scott Amarina Donohoe-Bales Gareth Bryant Edward Jegasothy Shamila Haddad Arianna Brambilla Amanda Howard Jo McClellan Jon Swain Laura McGrath Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review BMJ Open |
| title | Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
| title_full | Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
| title_fullStr | Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
| title_short | Locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health: protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
| title_sort | locating the built environment within existing empirical models of climate change and mental health protocol for a global systematic scoping review |
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