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The impacts of unstructured nature play on health in early childhood development: A systematic review.

Kylie A DankiwMargarita D TsirosKatherine L BaldockSaravana Kumar
Published in: PloS one (2020)
While the positive impacts of nature play were encouraging in terms of physical activity and cognitive development, nature play stakeholders should focus on producing a universal definition for nature play, the development of standardised outcome measures and the conduct of robust research designs. Implications of these findings suggest the need for the development of standardised guidelines to inform practice and policy in the design of children's play spaces in different contexts.
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