Humanities and Law School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China.
Department of Engineering Management, Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Deyang, China.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jun 23;11:1203675. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1203675. eCollection 2023.
The mental health of older adults has become one of the major health challenges facing society today, which has attracted wide concerns from scholars in urban areas, but research in rural areas has been neglected. Therefore, this paper took rural older adult residents of 11 sample villages in Jintang County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, as the research object. After controlling the demographic characteristics of older adults in rural areas, this paper attempted to explore the effects of the rural built Environment on the mental health of older adults. Through field investigation in the sample villages, 515 valid questionnaires were obtained. The results from the Binary Logistic Regression Model show that good marital status, physical health, education level, well-constructed roads, and safe neighborhoods had significant positive effects on the mental health of rural older adults. Rural older adults who prefer to walk, cycle, and use public transport have better mental health, and accessibility to the periodic market, health station, bus station, village committee, supermarket, and the main road is positively correlated with the mental health of rural older adults, while the distance from home to the town center and coach terminal has a significant negative impact on the mental health of rural older adults. The research results provide a theoretical reference for further construction of rural aging environments.
老年人的心理健康已成为当今社会面临的主要健康挑战之一，引起了城市学者的广泛关注，但农村地区的研究却被忽视了。因此，本文以四川省成都市金堂县 11 个样本村的农村老年居民为研究对象。在控制农村老年人人口特征的基础上，本文试图探讨农村建成环境对老年人心理健康的影响。通过对样本村的实地调查，共获得 515 份有效问卷。二元逻辑回归模型的结果表明，良好的婚姻状况、身体健康、教育水平、道路建设良好和安全的邻里环境对农村老年人的心理健康有显著的积极影响。喜欢步行、骑自行车和使用公共交通工具的农村老年人心理健康状况较好，定期市场、卫生站、公交车站、村委会、超市和主要道路的可达性与农村老年人的心理健康呈正相关，而从家到城镇中心和长途汽车站的距离对农村老年人的心理健康有显著的负面影响。研究结果为进一步建设农村老龄化环境提供了理论参考。
