ReviewPaediatrics & child health2024
Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention.
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- A Nature-Based Intervention and Mental Health of Schoolchildren: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Effect of an Outdoor-Focused Licensed Child Care Program on Child, Caregiver, and Educator Outcomes, Inclusion, and Accessibility: Protocol for the Sending Preschoolers Outside (SPROUT) Prospective Cohort Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- How does disability impact children's experiences in outdoor and risky play? A scoping review and narrative synthesis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Prospective acceptability, feasibility and outcomes of a primary school-led outdoor play intervention for young children.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Facilitators and barriers to adventurous play in British preschool-aged children: cross-sectional findings from the British Preschool Children's Play Survey.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- The fine line between the cure and the illness: the risks of prescriptive emotionality and sociality for youth mental health.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
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- A systematic review and meta-analyses of the relationships between active outdoor play and 24-hour movement behaviors.Journal of sport and health science · 2025Review
- Risky Outdoor Play and Adventure Education in Nature for Child and Adolescent Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The 5 R's of Indigenous Research as a Framework to Co-Design and Evaluate an Outdoor Play Program in Early Learning and Child Care Centers: Protocol for the Promoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO) 2.0 Wait-List Control Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- 2025 position statement on active outdoor play: process and methodology.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- 2025 Position statement on active outdoor play.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Review
- 2024 edition of the Rourke Baby Record.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025Review
- Parental Attitudes to Risky Play and Children's Independent Mobility: Public Health Implications for Children in Ireland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Risky Play Is Not a Dirty Word: A Tool to Measure Benefit-Risk in Outdoor Playgrounds and Educational Settings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Incidence and severity of paediatric sledding injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic.Paediatrics & child health · 2025Article
- Children's Risky Play and Resilience: Perspectives of Emergency Care Practitioners.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Retheorising 'Risky' Play in a Global Context: Addressing the Safety Needs of Refugee and Displaced Families.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Multi-Context Strategies and Opportunities for Increasing Levels of Physical Activity in Children and Young People: A Literature Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Active Child, Accomplished Youth: Middle Childhood Active Leisure Fuels Academic Success by Emerging Adulthood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Free play is essential for children's development and for their physical, mental, and social health. Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play-and risky play in particular-have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than focusing on serious and fatal injuries. Risky play is defined by thrilling and exciting forms of free play that involve uncertainty of outcome and a possibility of physical injury. Proponents of risky play differentiate "risk" from "hazard" and seek to reframe perceived risk as an opportunity for situational evaluation and personal development. This statement weighs the burden of play-related injuries alongside the evidence in favour of risky play, including its benefits, risks, and nuances, which can vary depending on a child's developmental stage, ability, and social and medical context. Approaches are offered to promote open, constructive discussions with families and organizations. Paediatricians are encouraged to think of outdoor risky play as one way to help prevent and manage common health problems such as obesity, anxiety, and behavioural issues.
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