Title Preschool studies mental health and cognition Source Equal-Life Deliverable 1.3: In-depth studies (2024) Kerstin Persson Waye , Maria Klatte,  Natalia Vincens, Dirk Schreckenberg, Dick Botteldooren, Peter Lercher, Angel Dzhambov Jan Spilski,  Larissa Leist, Yun Chen, Sarah Benz and the Equal-Life scientific team. Level of evidence Direct Where Germany (2x) and Belgium (1x) Who 111 for german and 60 for Belgium. 5-7 year old children Approach The preschool study aimed to

Title Sleep as a potential link between exposome, mental health and cognitive development in children and adolescents. Source A literature review. Natalia Vincens, Kerstin Perss (in preparation)   LERCHER, Peter; DZHAMBOV, Angel M.; WAYE, Kerstin Persson. Environmental perceptions, self-regulation, and coping with noise mediate the associations between children’s physical environment and sleep and mental health problems. Environmental Research, 2025, 264: 120414. Level of ev

Title New metrics for outdoor and indoor noise exposure related to mental health Add zenodo link Source D3.6; New Noise metrics for mental health Dick Botteldooren et al. 2024,   Arnaud Can, Dick Botteldooren, Timothy Van Renterghem, Peter Lercher, Rik Bogers (2025) Towards Valid, Transparent and Applicable Noise Indicators for Assessing Early-Life Mental Health Impacts , in preparation   Dick Botteldooren, Lucas Fourneau, Colin Vergaerde, Valentin Le Bescond, Luc Dekoninck,

Title Identification of exposome clusters based on societal, social, built and natural environment – results of the ABCD cohort study Source Telkmann K, Gudi-Mindermann H, Bogers R, Ahrens J, Tönnies J, van Kamp I, Vrijkotte T, Bolte G. Environment International 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109335   What Exploratory exposome cluster identification based on 60 variables from the Social Exposome conceptual framework (enabling a holistic assessment of societal, so

Title The role of self-regulation in the effects of environmental exposures on child mental health and cognition Source Klatte, M.; Bergström, K.; Leist, L.; Jeram, S. ; Lachmann, T.; Spilski, J.; Arat, A.; White, K.; Schreckenberg, D.; van Kamp, I.; Dzhambov, A.; Lercher, P.; Vincens, N.; Jansen, S.; Julvez, J.; Persson Waye, K.  (Submitted to Developmental Science, under review) Level of evidence Literature review What Systematic literature review on self-regulation (SR) as

Title Protective effect of restorative possibilities including the role of physical activity on cognitive function and mental health in children and adolescents Source Dzhambov, Angel M.; Lercher, Peter; Van Kamp, Irene. Protective effect of restorative possibilities on cognitive function and mental health in children and adolescents: A scoping review including the role of physical activity Environmental Research 00139351, doi:10.1016/j.envres.2023.116452  Level of evidence L

A logic framework to consider equity in urban intervention planning, implementation and evaluation Title A new framework to consider equity in urban intervention planning, implementation, and evaluation: development and application in a case study on an urban play spaces policy Source Ahrens J, White M, Jeram S, Ristovka G, Koning J, Gudi-Mindermann H, Tönnies J, Czwikla G, Weber M, Bolte G.   A new framework to consider equity in urban intervention planning, implementation,

Title Integrating the social environment with an equity perspective into the exposome paradigm: A new conceptual framework of the Social Exposome Sources Gudi-Mindermann H, White M, Roczen J, Riedel N, Dreger S, Bolte G.  Environ Res.  Level of evidence Systematic scoping literature review and development of a theory-based conceptual model What Concepts and frameworks on social and psychosocial environment, theory-based concepts of social influences relevant for health and me

Title Stress as a potential mediator in the association between exposome and mental health and cognitive development in children and adolescents. Source Christin Belke, Dirk Schreckenberg, Sarah Benz, Julia Kuhlmann, Angel Dzhambov, Peter Lercher, Maria Klatte, Larissa Leist, Natalie Vincens, Kerstin Persson Waye, Sonja Jeram, Gordana Ristovska, Igor Spiroski, Katja Kanninen, Arto Alatalo, Jenny Selander, Charlotta Eriksson, Arzu Arat, Kim White, Irene van Kamp. (S ubmitted,

Title Equal-Life conceptual models Source(s) Adopting a child perspective for exposome research on mental health and cognitive development - conceptualisation and opportunities.   Kerstin Persson Waye, Jesper Löve, Peter Lercher, Angel M. Dzhambov, Maria Klatte, Dirk Schreckenberg, Christin Belke, Larisa Leist, Gordana Ristovska, Sonja Jeram, Katja M. Kanninen, Jenny Selander, Arzu Arat, Thomas Lachmann, Charlotte Clark, Dick Botteldooren, Kim White, Jordi Julvez, Maria Foras

Title Children’s Mental Health and the Environment: Examining the role of activity patterns and environmental noise exposure. Source Hulsman-Dohmen, M. E. (2025). Level of evidence Direct/suggestive Where The Netherlands Who 231 participants What Field study. Activity diary and GPS tracking for 7 days, supplemented with a survey (mental health, social environment, environmental perception/satisfaction) Limitations: Small sample sizes per age group with low representation, pre

Conceptual model of factors affecting children’s access to urban greenspace, organized into five categories, with overarching factors and key relations depicted in the middle. Key question to each cluster stated outside the encompassing ellipsoid: access with and by Whom? From Where? How? To Where? And Why? Title Children’s access to urban greenspace: a survey of factors and measures Source Teeuwen, R., Bozzon, A., & Psyllidis, A. (2024). Cities & Health. https://doi.org/10.

Title Measuring children's and adolescents' accessibility to greenspaces from different locations and commuting settings   Source Roos Teeuwen, Achilleas Psyllidis, Alessandro Bozzon. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 100, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101912 Level of evidence Direct Where Case studies in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague (NL) - 848 green spaces evaluated for accessibility by children and adolescents on foot Approach Street

Level of evidence Direct evidence from analysing biosamples in two child cohorts – Walnuts (Spain) and FinnTwin (Finland) Approach Preliminary biomarker discovery in the Walnuts cohort: ·      We analysed plasma proteomic and bioinformatic data and identified significant changes in several proteins by comparing low- and high-risk groups, based on SDQ scores. (de Sousa Maciel et al. 2023). ·      We carried out further analyses for the entire sample set of 198 Walnuts plasma u