This project involved working with Phoenix Wellbeing and Hull Museums to understand how a group delivering sessions in the green spaces/gardens on museum grounds supported family wellbeing and positive parent-child interactions for families of very young children.
The project involved two parts.
- We conducted a scoping review exploring the use of green space interventions to support parents/caregivers’ wellbeing and/or improve parent-child relationships. This described a wide range of interventions that have been delivered to support families, identified the measures and methods that have been used to evaluate outcomes, and specified barriers and facilitators to implementation.
- We used observations and interviews to explore parents’ /caregivers’, intervention facilitators’ and museum staff’s experiences of the group delivered at Hull Museum and the impact it has. We worked with the group organisers and Hull Museums to develop a theory of change to understand how the group might be working to achieve outcomes. Key factors about the intervention that were valued by parents/caregivers included the flexibility of the intervention, and the interpersonal skills of the facilitators.
The publications can be read here:
Scoping review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266655812600076X
Tree Babies qualitative evaluation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666558126000163
