Associations of park access, park use and physical activity in parks with wellbeing in an Asian urban environment: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relationships between park access, park use, and wellbeing remain poorly understood. The objectives of this study were to investigate: (1) perceived and objective park access in relation to park use and physical activity in parks; and; (2) perceived and objective park access, park use and physical activity in parks and their associations with wellbeing.

Methods

An interviewer-assisted survey collected data on perceived time to walk to parks, park use time, park physical activity time and wellbeing (using a scale containing nine domains) amongst adult participants of the Singapore Multi-Ethnic Cohort. Geospatial maps of parks and the "walkable" street networks were created for the city-state of Singapore to objectively determine distances to accessible points on pa

SUBMITTER: Petrunoff NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8254359 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature