Policy and Environmental Predictors of Park Visits During the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Getting Out While Staying in

IF 5.2 2区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2021-07-14 DOI:10.1177/00139165211031199

David Curtis, A. Rigolon, Dorothy L. Schmalz, B. Brown

引用次数: 30

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic may have altered visitation patterns to parks, with potential effects on human health. Little is known about park use early in the pandemic, how park availability influenced use, and whether park visits accelerated COVID-19 spread. Using weekly cell phone location data for 620 U.S. counties, we show park visits decreased by an average 26% between March 15 and May 9, 2020. Net of weekly trends, park visits were 2.2% lower when stay-at-home orders were in effect, yet increased by 8.4% with school closures and 4.4% with business closures. Park visits decreased less during the pandemic in counties where park availability was high. Levels of park visits were not associated with COVID-19 growth rate or incidence in the following weeks. Thus, parks served as recreation and leisure outlets when schools and businesses closed, especially where parks were more available, with no evidence of park use increasing COVID-19 spread.

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新冠肺炎大流行前几个月公园参观的政策和环境预测因素：待在家里就出去

新冠肺炎大流行可能改变了公园的参观模式，对人类健康有潜在影响。关于疫情早期公园的使用、公园的可用性如何影响使用以及公园参观是否加速了新冠肺炎的传播，人们知之甚少。使用美国620个县的每周手机位置数据，我们发现2020年3月15日至5月9日期间，公园游客平均减少了26%。扣除每周趋势，在居家令生效时，公园参观量减少了2.2%，但在学校关闭时增加了8.4%，在企业关闭后增加了4.4%。在疫情期间，公园可用性高的县的公园访问量减少了。公园参观水平与新冠肺炎增长率或接下来几周的发病率无关。因此，当学校和企业关闭时，公园充当了娱乐和休闲场所，尤其是在公园更为开放的情况下，没有证据表明公园的使用增加了新冠肺炎的传播。

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Environment and Behavior Multiple-

CiteScore

13.30

自引率

1.80%

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期刊介绍： Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.