Ryan, Éadaoin, Imbusch, Niamh, Kinahan, Mary and Guilfoyle, Róisín (2025) Current understanding and theories of wellbeing washing in the context of workplace health and wellbeing: A scoping review protocol. MethodsX, 15. p. 103452. ISSN 2215-0161
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Abstract
Workplace health and wellbeing practitioners have recently voiced concerns regarding the emerging concept of wellbeing washing (WW). While practitioner literature extensively discusses this
concept, research supporting the examination of it and offering solutions is lacking. This scoping review protocol outlines a means of comprehensively investigating and mapping the mainly
practitioner-authored literature on WW, to support the establishment of a working definition and
deeper understanding of this concept, which will inform future research.
A search strategy will be employed to map information from diverse practitioner literature
sources. Guided by the JBI Scoping Review Framework, two reviewers will use predefined criteria to independently screen included sources and capture information using a standardized data
extraction tool. A basic qualitative content analysis will be conducted and results presented in
tabular form. A narrative summary will complement the tabulated results, providing further context.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Wellbeing washing; Well washing; Workplace wellbeing; Scoping review; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: | 21253 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.mex.2025.103452 |
| Depositing User: | Mary Kinahan |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2026 16:44 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | MethodsX |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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