Climate change and health in school-based education: A scoping review protocol

learners, geographical location, educational setting, duration of program, health topics, and content focus. Finally, results will be presented in table format and summarized in text format. Finally, a narrative summary of the review findings will be provided, using frequencies and thematic analysis [38]. 2.6. Institutional review board statement Not Applicable. This study will be a review of already published and publicly available data retrieved from the databases mention above (see section 2.2). Ethical concerns related to the involvement of humans or other are not applicable in this case. Upon completion of the review, a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal will be prepared. 3. Limitations It is possible that our review will not include all articles which have been published in every journal as some may not be accessible or may be missed due to diverse terminology used. Another limitation will be the inclusion of English language studies and literature only, as this will mean that evidence published in languages other than English will not be included in the scoping review. Also, methodology quality appraisals of the studies and evidence included in the scoping review will not be executed, which is a potential limitation. However, Arksey and O’Malley [39] and Pollock et al.[40] state that quality appraisals of evidence is not the focus of scoping reviews. 4. Conclusions This review is the most recent to comprehensively report the breadth of literature on the rela- tionship between climate change and health education in school-based education. Its main

aim is to understand to what extent health topics are covered in climate change education in primary and secondary schools and the nature thereof. The scoping review will conform to the rigorous methodology manual by the Joanna Briggs Institute. The findings from this scoping review will be useful to school curricula developers looking to expand climate change educa- tion. This review will also highlight potential research gaps in education on climate change- related health in schools. Supporting information S1 Checklist. PRISMA-P 2015 checklist. (PDF) S1 Appendix. Appendix A—PCC framework. (PDF) S2 Appendix. Appendix B—Search strings and search run. (PDF) Author Contributions Conceptualization: Lira Ramadani, Melanie Boeckmann. Methodology: Lira Ramadani. Supervision: Melanie Boeckmann. Writing – original draft: Lira Ramadani. PLOS ONE Climate change and health in school-based education: A scoping review protocol PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282431 March 1, 2023 5 / 7