Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of studies on regular school- and curriculum-based outdoor education programmes.
| Source | N | Age | Distribution of Sex (% Male) | Country | Study Design | Administrator of Data Acquisition | Type of School |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mygind [4] | 19 | 9–10 | 26.3 | Denmark | case-study | chn | primary school |
| Mygind [7] | 19 | 9–10 | 26.3 | Denmark | case-study | chn | primary school |
| Dettweiler et al. [23] | 56 | 14–20 | n/a | Germany | cross-sectional retrospective | adol | secondary school |
| Hartmeyer et al. [6] | 5 adol, 2 t | 16 | 40 adol | Denmark | case-study retrospective | adol, t | primary school |
| Martin et al. [28] | 45 IG, 67 CG | 14–15 | 51.1 IG, 47.8 CG | USA | quasi-experimental | adol | secondary school |
| Santelmann et al. [29] | 40 | 12–15 | n/a | USA | case-study | chn, adol | secondary school |
| Moeed et al. [31] | 85 adol, 1 t | 15-24 | 61 adol | New Zealand | case-study | adol, adul, t | secondary school |
| Gustafsson et al. [5] | 121 IG, 109 CG | 8.6 ± 1.6 IG, 8.1 ± 1.5 CG | 56.2 IG, 51.4 CG | Sweden | quasi-experimental | chn | primary school |
| Bowker et al. [34] | 72 | 7–14 | n/a | UK, India, Kenya | case-study | chn, adol | primary + secondary school |
| Sharpe [32] | 9 chn, 2 t, 5 p, 2 s | 10–11 | n/a | UK | case-study | chn, t, p, s | primary school |
| Fiskum et al. [33] | 9 | 10–11 | 55.6 | Norway | case-study | chn | primary school |
| Wistoft [27] | 98 chn/t, 135 p, 6 s | - | n/a | Denmark | case-study | chn, p, t, s | primary school |
| Ernst et al. [30] | 90 chn, n/a p s | 10–11 chn | n/a | USA | quasi-experimental | chn, p, s | secondary school |
Note: adol: adolescents; chn: children; p: parents; t: teacher; s: staff; IG: intervention group; CG: control group; n/a: not available.