Systematic Review of Public Health Measures at Sporting Mass Gatherings

Thirty-four articles assessing 37 sporting mass gatherings, including 10 Olympic Games, were reviewed for intervention effectiveness. This text dataset is a systematic review authored by Lucia Mullen, published in April 2026. It maps pre-pandemic and pandemic-era planning for respiratory disease mitigation at large sports events.

Use Cases

• Classify intervention packages as effective, non-effective, or indeterminate based on the study's developed framework.
• Analyze the relationship between reported feasibility concerns and event characteristics like spectator count.
• Extract and categorize specific intervention types such as bubble approaches, routine testing, and masking from article descriptions.
• Model factors influencing intervention acceptability, including perceived work burden and stakeholder engagement levels.

Strengths

• Analysis covers 37 distinct sporting mass gathering events from 34 articles.
• Includes a defined effectiveness framework applied to categorize 23 effective, 3 non-effective, and 6 indeterminate intervention packages.

Limitations

• Limited to 87.2 KB of text data, containing only the review's findings and not the underlying primary study datasets.
• Excludes predictive modeling studies and publications prior to 2000, limiting temporal and methodological scope.
• Sample size is constrained to the 34 articles meeting the review's inclusion criteria.

Provenance

Source

Systematic review authored by Lucia Mullen, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Literature review from Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, and other databases.

Time Range

Publications from 2000 to July 2025, covering pre-pandemic and pandemic-era events.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026, with literature searches conducted up to July 2025.

Geography

Global, covering sporting mass gatherings worldwide.