• J Urban Health · Feb 2012

    Neighborhood urban form, social environment, and depression.

    • Rebecca Miles, Christopher Coutts, and Asal Mohamadi.
    • Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2280, USA. rebecca.miles@fsu.edu
    • J Urban Health. 2012 Feb 1; 89 (1): 1181-18.

    AbstractWe examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms. A larger acreage of green spaces was also linked to fewer depressive symptoms but did not reach significance in the full model. Our results suggest that how residents use the environment matters. Living in neighborhoods with a higher density of auto commuters relative to land area, an indicator of chronic noise exposure, was associated with more symptoms.

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