Does time spent on visits to green space mediate the associations between the level of residential greenness and mental health?

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 25, Issue , 2017, Pages 94-102

  van den Berg, Magdalena ^a   van Poppel, Mireille ^a,i   Smith, Graham ^b   Triguero Mas, Margarita ^d,e,f   Andrusaityte, Sandra ^g   van Kamp, Irene ^c   van Mechelen, Willem ^a   Gidlow, Christopher ^b   Gražulevičiene, Regina ^g   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^d,e,f   Kruize, Hanneke ^c   Maas, Jolanda ^a,h  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^g VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Green space; Mediation; Mental health; Residential greenness; Time spent on visits

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESEARCH WORK; SAFETY; SATELLITE DATA;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; DOETINCHEM; ENGLAND; GELDERLAND; KAUNAS; LITHUANIA; NETHERLANDS; SPAIN; STOKE ON TRENT [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85019949250     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.04.010     Document Type: Article

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