The Resilient Child Indicators in Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review Protocol

Annually, children as a major group are affected in disasters worldwide. resilience terminology is appeared in disaster risk reduction to improve more attention paid on human ability instead of concentration on his vulnerability. it seems that child resiliency may be the best approach to decrease the vulnerability. although there are lots of studies on resiliency, children resiliency in disasters seems to be a unique field to consider. the current systematic review protocol aimed at synthesizing the evidence of the children resiliency indicators in natural disasters to identify their capacity and improve their ability against it. the current systematic review will be conducted on the children resiliency in articles regarding natural disaster situation that extracted indicators/factors to improve children resiliency in natural disasters. four main electronic databases which cover such articles will be searched including pubmed, scopus, web of science, and pycinfo. furthermore, experts will be asked to identify verifiable grey literatures. endnote software version x7 will be used to manage searching the databases, screening duplications, and extracting irrelevant articles. search strategy was defined by the current review authors. specific syntax was used for each main database. a period will be considered to search the databases. the evaluation of the articles will be conducted based on pico defined according to the research question to include and exclude the articles. moreover, the qualitative assessment and review instrument (qari) checklist from jbi (joanna briggs institute reviewers’ manual: 2014 edition) will be used to assess the quality criteria. it is a quality context focused on human psychosocial behavior with specific group called children, adolescents, teenagers, and youths, but the current systematic review called them under eighteen-year-old children according to the definition of the united nations international children’s emergency fund (unicef). on the other hand, the qari data extraction instrument will be also used according to the research question. the current systematic literature review will determine the tangible criteria of child resiliency that would be valuable for decision makers, community, researchers, families, and the people concerned about children and also disaster situations. in this way, in disaster situations they can evaluate the difference between resilient children vs. non-resilient ones; the impacts are limited to the disaster, but also long-time after the disaster.