The association of park use and park perception with quality of life using structural equation modeling.

Autor:	Kodali HP; Center for Systems and Community Design, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States., Ferris EB; Center for Systems and Community Design, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States., Wyka K; Center for Systems and Community Design, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States., Evenson KR; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States., Dorn JM; Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States., Thorpe LE; Department of Population Health, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States., Huang TT; Center for Systems and Community Design, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in public health [Front Public Health] 2023 Jan 25; Vol. 11, pp. 1038288. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 25 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2023.1038288
Abstrakt:	Introduction: The literature is limited on the impact of neighborhood parks on quality of life (QoL) and the mechanism linking them. Methods: In this paper, we applied the structural equation model to data from a cross-sectional sample of 650 participants in low-income communities of New York City, we examined the associations of neighborhood park use vs. park perception and QoL, and whether these associations were mediated through self-reported perceived stress. We also examined whether park use mediated the relationship between park perception and QoL. Results: We found that park use had a significant but weak association with QoL (standardized β = 0.08, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.02, 0.15, p = 0.02), but this relationship was not mediated by self-reported stress. Park perception was more strongly associated with QoL than park use (standardized β = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.16, 0.30, p < 0.01), and this was partly mediated by self-reported stress (indirect effect- standardized β = 0.08, 95% CI: 0.03, 0.13, p < 0.01) and, to a lesser extent, by park use (indirect effect- standardized β = 0.01, 95% CI: 0.00, 0.02, p = 0.01). Discussion: Having well-perceived parks appears to be an important factor for QoL independent of park use, suggesting that quality parks may benefit everyone in a community beyond park users. This strengthens the argument in favor of increasing park investment as a strategy to improve population wellbeing. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Kodali, Ferris, Wyka, Evenson, Dorn, Thorpe and Huang.)
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