Visiting nearby natural settings supported wellbeing during Sweden's "soft-touch" pandemic restrictions.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic entailed varying restrictions on access, movement and social behavior in populations around the world. Knowledge about how people coped with "soft-touch" restrictions can inform urban spatial planning strategies that enhance resilience against future pandemics. We analyzed data from an online place-based survey on 2845 places across Sweden that respondents abstained from visiting, visited with similar frequency, or visited more frequently in spring 2020 as compared to before the pandemic. In spatial logistic regression models, we relate geographical and sociodemographic properties of places (fields, forests, water, residential population density and daytime population density) to self-perceived changes in wellbeing from visiting the given place less or more often,

SUBMITTER: Samuelsson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188842 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature