Table 1.
Scoping review inclusion and exclusion criteria.
| Inclusion Criteria | Exclusion Criteria | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | - Child focused (study population with mean age 18 years and under) - Study population located entirely in low- and middle-income countries at time of exposure (may be located in more than one) 1 |
- Adult focused (study population with mean age over 18 years) - Any part of the study population located in high-income countries |
| Intervention (Exposure) | - Climate-related disaster exposure (see Table S1 for list of climate-related disasters) OR climate change-related exposure (as identified by the study author) 2 | |
| Comparison | - Any | |
| Outcome | - Mental disorders (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, acute stress, substance use and addiction, bipolar, schizophrenia, suicidal behavior, non-suicidal self-injury) evaluated based on DSM or ICD symptoms | - Mental disorders not evaluated based on DSM or ICD symptoms - Study only measures positive mental health |
| Study Design | Any type of empirical literature, including - Journal articles (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) - Grey literature (conference proceedings, dissertations, government and organization documents, policy briefs) |
- Narrative reviews, syntheses (scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, etc.), commentaries, editorials, expert opinions - Validation studies - Non-English language - Date of publication before 2007 3 |
Abbreviations: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); International Classification of Diseases (ICD). 1 Based on the World Bank’s designation of a low- and middle-income country (includes low-, lower-middle, and upper-middle-income economies) [33]. 2 Climate change is a challenging concept to define and measure. We chose to include studies where the study author explicitly mentioned that they were investigating the effects of climate change (e.g., used the words “climate change” when describing the study exposure). 3 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report (AR4) was published in 2007, in which the authors began to acknowledge the impacts of climate change on human health and well-being. This approach was taken in a similar scoping review by Middleton and colleagues [34].