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Park Use in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: Who Uses the Parks and Why?

verfasst von: Christine A. Vaughan, Natalie Colabianchi, Gerald P. Hunter, Robin Beckman, Tamara Dubowitz

Erschienen in: Journal of Urban Health | Ausgabe 2/2018

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Abstract

We examined individual and environmental influences on park use among residents of two low-income predominantly African American neighborhoods to identify determinants of park use in lower-income urban neighborhoods. We analyzed data from interviews of 1003 individuals randomly selected from the neighborhoods, systematic observations of neighborhood parks, and police-recorded crime incidence within a .5-mi buffer around each park. Most participants (82.4%) had previously visited a neighborhood park, and nearly half (46.2%) had visited one in the past month. However, only 8.5% of participants were aware of their closest park. Compared with the parks closest to home, parks that participants reported visiting most were larger and had more amenities and features and fewer incivilities and reported crimes of a serious nature. Park use among residents of lower-income neighborhoods may be increased by offering more amenities and features and ensuring the presence of a well-appointed park within easy walking distance of residents’ homes.

Because PHRESH and PHRESH Plus were linked, longitudinal studies of the same cohort, the same eligibility criteria used for PHRESH were used for PHRESH Plus.

The list of all parks in the study neighborhoods was constructed based on a list from the Pittsburgh Parks and Recreation Department. The list was then “ground truthed” with members of the project’s Community Advisory Board.

SOPARC is best known as a tool for assessing park users and their physical activity levels, which was done for the quasi-experimental study. However, analyzing observational data on park use was beyond the scope of the current study, and thus we do not describe the assessment of park use or any related indicators.

For ease of reference, we shorten the labels for categories 1 and 2 to “parks closest to home” and “parks most frequently visited,” respectively, throughout the remainder of the manuscript.

Hedges’ g can be interpreted using the same effect size conventions used to interpret Cohen’s d.

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Titel: Park Use in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: Who Uses the Parks and Why?
verfasst von: Christine A. Vaughan
Natalie Colabianchi
Gerald P. Hunter
Robin Beckman
Tamara Dubowitz
Publikationsdatum: 09.02.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Urban Health / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1099-3460
Elektronische ISSN: 1468-2869
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-017-0221-7

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