{"title":"PROTOCOL: The Impact of Long Asylum Application Processing Time on Asylum Seekers and Refugees' Mental Health and Social Functioning: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Trine Filges, Malene Wallach Kildemoes, Therese Østergaard Møller","doi":"10.1177/18911803261486442","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261486442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are to analyse the effects of long asylum application processing time on asylum seekers and refugees' mental health and social functioning. The project will follow standard procedures for conducting systematic reviews using meta-analytic techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261486442"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13571009/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protocol: Deterrence-Oriented Counterterrorism Interventions in OECD Countries for Domestic Terrorist Attacks: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Esther Salama, Michael Wolfowicz, Badi Hasisi","doi":"10.1177/18911803261487177","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261487177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives:</b> This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to assess the effectiveness of nationally implemented, government-led, deterrence-oriented counterterrorism interventions targeting domestic terrorism in OECD countries. <b>Methodology:</b> The review will follow standard Campbell Collaboration methodological guidelines. Data permitting, multilevel meta-analyses will be used to estimate overall pooled effect sizes while accounting for the hierarchical structure of the data by modelling dependence among multiple effect sizes within studies. Moderator analysis and meta-regression will be instrumental in exploring potential sources of heterogeneity. <b>Implications:</b> The findings of the review hold significant implications for shaping effective evidence-based policies and interventions in the area of domestic counterterrorism. The results are also intended to inform future research by identifying gaps in the body of knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261487177"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13570073/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Purkarthofer, Sebastian Labenbacher, Helmar Bornemann-Cimenti, Giovanni Landoni
{"title":"<i>deduplicate.it:</i> A Simple Open-Source Tool to Remove Duplicates From Literature Searches.","authors":"David Purkarthofer, Sebastian Labenbacher, Helmar Bornemann-Cimenti, Giovanni Landoni","doi":"10.1177/18911803261484937","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261484937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Systematic reviews and meta-analyses aim to comprehensively identify, summarize and appraise literature. Record identification is performed within multiple databases with important overlap. Deduplication is therefore an important, time-consuming step often underreported or described only briefly. Unique identifiers like the digital object identifier (DOI<sup>®</sup>) provide a practical basis to identify and remove unambiguous duplicates, but require careful handling of missing, inconsistently formatted, or non-unique DOIs. We created a simple tool that removes duplicates based on normalized DOIs and titles, and make it available as a free-to-use web application hosted on <i>deduplicate.it</i>. It is designed for ease of use, while maintaining high transparency by utilizing a human-readable, simple algorithm and outputting exclusion files and a PRISMA-style flowchart alongside the deduplicated output. In a validation set of five reviews in medicine, education and social welfare, deduplicate.it was able to identify around 80% of duplicates and reduce the time dedicated to deduplication accordingly.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261484937"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13558981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Supporting Informal Caregivers: A Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Ravi Shankar, Lexi Lacey Ang, Qian Xu","doi":"10.1177/18911803261486864","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261486864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: to synthesize the existing evidence on the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) interventions in supporting informal caregivers across outcomes including caregiver burden, stress, depression, anxiety, quality of life, self-efficacy, and skills acquisition. The review will compare VR interventions to usual care, waitlist control, or active control conditions. Eligible study designs include randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies, and pre-post studies published in English. A comprehensive search strategy will be implemented across multiple electronic databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, CINAHL, MEDLINE, CENTRAL via the Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and Scopus) from inception to June 2026, supplemented by searches of gray literature, clinical trial registries, and reference lists. The review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and is registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) (Registration Number: CRD42025634474). Covidence software will be used for screening, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool 2 (RoB 2) for randomized controlled trials and the Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions (ROBINS-I) tool for non-randomized studies. If appropriate, a meta-analysis will be conducted using random-effects models, and the certainty of evidence will be assessed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) approach. The findings will inform future research and practice regarding VR-based caregiver support.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261486864"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148920929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narendar Manohar, Hiroko Fujimoto, Jeffrey C L Looi, Paul A Maguire, Stephen Kisely, Tarun Bastiampillai, Stephen Robson, Samuel B Harvey, Peter A Baldwin
{"title":"PROTOCOL: Interventions to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Mental Health Professionals: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Narendar Manohar, Hiroko Fujimoto, Jeffrey C L Looi, Paul A Maguire, Stephen Kisely, Tarun Bastiampillai, Stephen Robson, Samuel B Harvey, Peter A Baldwin","doi":"10.1177/18911803261479280","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261479280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a protocol for a systematic review that aims to identify interventions used to improve recruitment and retention of mental healthcare professionals, and to examine the effectiveness of these interventions. Previous systematic reviews have examined interventions targeting either a specific systemic or occupational factor associated with recruitment and retention of mental health professionals or involved only a specific group of mental health professionals. To our knowledge, this will be the first review that comprehensively synthesises evidence regarding interventions for a broad range of possible systemic and/or occupational factors associated with recruitment and retention across all professional groups working in the field of mental health. The findings of this review will help inform evidence-based interventions to address challenges related to recruitment and retention of mental health workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261479280"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13542542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148897905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory Lucy Mtambo, Devi Mohan, Narelle Warren, Tin Tin Su, Fatima Ibrahim Abdulsalam, Adeola Alebiosu, Kia Fatt Quek
{"title":"PROTOCOL: Effects of Rehabilitation and Behavioural Interventions for Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment on Quality of Life: Protocol for a Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials.","authors":"Memory Lucy Mtambo, Devi Mohan, Narelle Warren, Tin Tin Su, Fatima Ibrahim Abdulsalam, Adeola Alebiosu, Kia Fatt Quek","doi":"10.1177/18911803261482111","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261482111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This protocol is for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: to determine the effects of rehabilitation and behavioural interventions for post-stroke cognitive impairment on quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261482111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13535009/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148881881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trine Filges, Anja Bondebjerg Mølgaard, Geir Smedslund, Malene W Kildemoes, Elizabeth Bengtsen
{"title":"Proactive Resilience Programmes for Improving Resilience and Psychological Adaptation in Employees in High-Risk Occupations: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Trine Filges, Anja Bondebjerg Mølgaard, Geir Smedslund, Malene W Kildemoes, Elizabeth Bengtsen","doi":"10.1177/18911803261473521","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261473521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Promoting positive mental health is important due to its beneficial influence on not only educational attainment, productivity, employment and earnings, but also social cohesion, engagement, and quality of life. Individuals employed in occupations associated with high stress levels and extreme conditions (such as the police, fire and rescue services, health and social services, and the military) commonly report stress-related mental health conditions arising from their exposure to multiple traumas. Thus, especially for individuals employed in occupations associated with high stress and extreme conditions is resilience important for the ability to continued functioning. Proactive resilience interventions might work by strengthening behaviors, thoughts, and actions and thereby improve psychosocial well-being in case of experiencing traumatic work-related events.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>What are the effects of proactive resilience programmes offered to employees in high-risk occupations on resilience and psychological adaptation?</p><p><strong>Search methods: </strong>The database searches were carried out in November 2024, and other sources were also searched in November 2024. We searched to identify both published and unpublished literature. A date restriction from 1990 and onwards was applied.</p><p><strong>Selection criteria: </strong>The intervention was proactive resilience programmes offered to employees in high-risk occupations. The outcomes of primary interest were resilience and psychological adaptation (stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD symptoms). Studies that used a control group were eligible, whereas qualitative approaches were not.</p><p><strong>Data collection and analysis: </strong>The number of potentially relevant studies was 18,803. Two hundred and forty-two studies, reported on a total of 220 trials containing 227 comparisons met the inclusion criteria. One hundred and eighty-five comparisons were used in the data synthesis. Eight comparisons had a critical risk of bias and were not used in the data synthesis. Twenty-three comparisons were from studies that did not report data in a form that enabled the calculation of effect sizes and standard errors, and our attempts to request the data from study authors produced no answers, and finally, 11 comparisons were not used as there were no relevant outcomes reported. Meta-analyses were conducted on each outcome and each time point separately. All analyses were inverse variance weighted using random effects statistical models. The effect size used was standardised mean difference (SMD).</p><p><strong>Main results: </strong>Comparisons used in the data synthesis came from 33 different countries. The timespan of studies was 17 years, from 2006 to 2023. The average number of treated participants analysed was 126, ranging from 7 to 6, 739 per comparison. The majority of comparisons analysed participants from health occupations (71%), followed ","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261473521"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13570229/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PROTOCOL: Experiences of Informal Caregivers of Dependent Older People on Interventions to Reduce Care Burden and Promote Their Biopsychosocial Well-Being.","authors":"Mariana Loezar-Hernández, Alejandra-Ximena Araya, Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Catalina Ganga-León, Carolina Climent-Sanz","doi":"10.1177/18911803261467064","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261467064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is predicted that by 2050, 22% of the world's population will be over 60 years old. Informal caregivers of dependent older adults face a significant physical, psychological and social burden. However, interventions designed to support these caregivers have predominantly been evaluated through quantitative outcomes. Qualitative evidence on the experiences and perceptions of these interventions reported by caregivers themselves remains largely unsynthesised. This review aims to identify and synthesise qualitative evidence on how informal caregivers of dependent older people experience and perceive interventions designed to alleviate the burden of caregiving and enhance their biopsychosocial well-being. For this purpose, a systematic search will be conducted in the following databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science Core Collection and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Publications in English and Spanish from 2014 onwards will be included. Grey literature will also be included. Search strategies will be developed with a research librarian and peer-reviewed using the PRESS checklist. Regarding selection criteria, primary qualitative studies and mixed-methods studies with accessible qualitative data exploring the experiences of informal caregivers of dependent older adults (60+) who have received interventions targeting burden reduction and biopsychosocial well-being will be included. Studies focused exclusively on palliative cancer care or on caregivers of people with cognitive impairment will be excluded. Data extraction will be conducted independently by two reviewers. Thematic synthesis will be conducted using Thomas and Harden's method. The methodological quality will be assessed using the CASP Qualitative Checklist and the confidence in the findings will be evaluated using GRADE-CERQual.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 3","pages":"18911803261467064"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13558990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel Hor, Michael Zhang, Yinglei Wang, Alison Manley
{"title":"Protocol: Effects of Organizational Transparency Interventions on Trust in AI-Assisted Decision-Making and Human Decision-Makers: A Systematic Review of Enabling Mechanisms.","authors":"Rachel Hor, Michael Zhang, Yinglei Wang, Alison Manley","doi":"10.1177/18911803261453388","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261453388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This protocol describes a systematic review that will examine the effects of organizational transparency interventions on trust in AI-assisted decision-making and in human decision-makers. The review addresses a dual-trust dynamic - cognition-based trust in AI-assisted decisions and affect-based trust in human decision-makers - that existing reviews have not synthesised together. Eligible studies will involve organizational decision-makers interacting with AI-assisted systems and will measure trust-related outcomes in response to transparency interventions such as disclosure protocols, process transparency, or leader communication strategies. Database searches will span psychology, management, information systems, and AI literatures from 2015 to present across PsycINFO, Scopus, Web of Science, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and grey literature sources. A convergent segregated mixed-methods synthesis will be used: random-effects meta-analysis for quantitative evidence and thematic synthesis following Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research (ENTREQ) for qualitative evidence. Findings will be integrated in a cross-interpretation stage to produce theory-informed conclusions on mechanisms and moderators of trust asymmetry. The review is registered with the Campbell Collaboration Business and Management Coordinating Group.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 2","pages":"18911803261453388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13319974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148370061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tina Vickery, Georgia Fisher, Lisa Pagano, Darran Foo, Jeffrey Braithwaite
{"title":"PROTOCOL: How Do Primary Care Providers Seek Advice Regarding Paediatric Care? Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review.","authors":"Tina Vickery, Georgia Fisher, Lisa Pagano, Darran Foo, Jeffrey Braithwaite","doi":"10.1177/18911803261460864","DOIUrl":"10.1177/18911803261460864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite their central role, Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) encounter numerous challenges in providing primary care for children. Complex factors spanning all levels of the health system contribute to variability in the quality of paediatric primary care. Contextually informed strategies addressing these factors can deliver positive change. These strategies recognise healthcare as a complex adaptive system and leverage the interconnectedness of the health system and communication networks of healthcare providers. Evidence describing advice-seeking practices of PCPs related to paediatric care is limited. This protocol outlines a mixed methods systematic review that aims to examine how primary care practitioners seek advice regarding paediatric care. The resulting review will synthesise the structures and characteristics of the social networks through which PCPs seek advice regarding paediatric care, how networks are measured, the benefits of these networks, and factors PCPs encounter when seeking advice. The review will be guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute Mixed Methods Systematic Review manual and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) statement. We will search English language publications in EMBASE, Ovid MEDLINE, and Web of Science. Relevant peer-reviewed articles published since 2013 will be included, encompassing randomised controlled trials (RCTs), non-RCTs, pre- and post-intervention studies, cross-sectional studies, qualitative studies, social network analysis, and mixed-methods studies. Data will be synthesised using a convergent integrated approach, transforming quantitative data into textual descriptions and aggregating where possible to produce integrated findings. PROSPERO Registration Number: CRD420251025798.</p>","PeriodicalId":36698,"journal":{"name":"Campbell Systematic Reviews","volume":"22 2","pages":"18911803261460864"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13305723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}