Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children

Osa, Nuria de la; Navarro, Jose-Blas; Penelo, Eva; Valentín, Antònia; Ezpeleta, Lourdes; Dadvand, Payam

Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children

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dc.contributor.author Osa, Nuria de la
dc.contributor.author Navarro, Jose-Blas
dc.contributor.author Penelo, Eva
dc.contributor.author Valentín, Antònia
dc.contributor.author Ezpeleta, Lourdes
dc.contributor.author Dadvand, Payam
dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-14T06:42:59Z
dc.date.available 2024-06-14T06:42:59Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.description.abstract Exposure to greenspace has been associated with mental health benefits in children; however, the available evidence for such an association with anxiety is still scarce. This longitudinal study aimed to evaluate that association on a community cohort of 539 children, from Barcelona province, followed from 3 to 11 years. Long-term exposure to greenspace was characterized at both residential address and school as (i) surrounding greenspace based on satellite-derived indexes (normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Vegetation Continuous Field (VCF) across different buffers and (ii) distance to the nearest green space. We characterized anxiety using the Child Behavior Checklist and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale, and cross-sectionally and longitudinally analyzed the associations between the greenspace exposure and the anxiety, using linear mixed models. Higher greenspace surrounding home and school were associated with lower levels of anxiety. Our findings suggest that increasing exposure to greenspace, specially at schools, could be included in preventive policies to promote mental health in children.
dc.description.sponsorship Funding was from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN/FEDER) [grant PGC2018-095239-B-I00]. We are grateful to Albert Ambros Rodoreda, Ivan Lombardich, and Bruno Raimbault for their help in assessing greenspace exposure and preparing figures and maps for this article. We acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and State Research Agency through the “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019–2023” Program (CEX2018-000806-S) and from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program.
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dc.identifier.citation Osa N, Navarro JB, Penelo E, Valentí A, Ezpeleta L, Dadvand P. Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024;93:102207. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102207
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102207
dc.identifier.issn 0272-4944
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60470
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024;93:102207
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-095239-B-I00
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CEX2018-000806-S
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.keyword Emotional health
dc.subject.keyword Green spaces
dc.subject.keyword Nature
dc.subject.keyword Parks
dc.subject.keyword Psychology
dc.subject.keyword Stress
dc.title Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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