The association between urban land use and depressive symptoms in young adulthood: a FinnTwin12 cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depressive symptoms lead to a serious public health burden and are considerably affected by the environment. Land use, describing the urban living environment, influences mental health, but complex relationship assessment is rare.

Objective

We aimed to examine the complicated association between urban land use and depressive symptoms among young adults with differential land use environments, by applying multiple models.

Methods

We included 1804 individual twins from the FinnTwin12 cohort, living in urban areas in 2012. There were eight types of land use exposures in three buffer radii. The depressive symptoms were assessed through the General Behavior Inventory (GBI) in young adulthood (mean age: 24.1). First, K-means clustering was performed to distinguis

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11446816 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature