Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia.
School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
BMC Public Health. 2023 Mar 30;23(1):598. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15433-0.
Disadvantaged areas experience higher levels of loneliness than advantaged areas, though studies rarely identify environmental determinants of neighbourhood inequity in loneliness. We studied the contribution of the quantity and quality of green space to neighbourhood inequity in loneliness in three buffer sizes (400 m, 800 m, 1600 m), using cross-sectional data from 3778 individuals aged 48-77 years old living in 200 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia. Levels of loneliness were significantly higher in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and these neighbourhoods had less green space and less access to quality green space. However, there was no evidence that neighbourhood disparities in green space contributed to the association between neighbourhood disadvantage and loneliness. Possible methodological and substantive reasons for this result are discussed.
贫困地区比富裕地区的孤独感更强烈，尽管研究很少确定孤独感在邻里不平等方面的环境决定因素。我们使用来自澳大利亚布里斯班 200 个邻里的 3778 名 48-77 岁个体的横断面数据，研究了不同大小的三个缓冲区（400m、800m 和 1600m）的绿地数量和质量对孤独感邻里不平等的贡献。结果发现，在贫困社区中孤独感水平显著更高，而这些社区的绿地面积更少，且优质绿地的可达性也更低。然而，没有证据表明邻里绿地差异对邻里贫困与孤独感之间的关联有贡献。对这一结果可能存在的方法学和实质性原因进行了讨论。
