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The built environment and depressive symptoms among urban youth: A spatial regression study
Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, v 5(1), pp 11-25
01 Jun 2013
PMID: 23725884
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Abstract
This study evaluated spatial relationships between features of the built environment and youth depressive symptoms. Data used in this study came from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey Geospatial Dataset, which includes Boston high school students with complete residential information (n = 1170). Features of the built environment (such as access to walking destinations and community design features) were created for 400- and 800-m street network buffers of the youths' residences. We computed standard Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and spatial simultaneous autoregressive models. We found significant positive spatial autocorrelation in all of the built environment features at both spatial scales (all p = 0.001), depressive symptoms (p = 0.034) as well as in the OLS regression residuals (all p < 0.001), and, therefore, fit spatial regression models. Findings from the spatial regression models indicate that the built environment can have depressogenic effects, which can vary by spatial scale, gender and race/ethnicity (though sometimes in unexpected directions, i.e. associations opposite to our expectations). While our results overall suggest that the built environment minimally influences youth depressive symptoms, additional research is needed, including to understand our results in the unexpected direction. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- The built environment and depressive symptoms among urban youth: A spatial regression study
- Creators
- Dustin T. Duncan - Harvard UniversityGianfranco Piras - West Virginia UniversityErin C. Dunn - Center for Human GeneticsRenee M. Johnson - Boston UniversitySteven J. Melly - Harvard UniversityBeth E. Molnar - Northeastern University
- Publication Details
- Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, v 5(1), pp 11-25
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- K01DA031738 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); European Commission L40 DA034573; T32 DA007292; K01 DA031738 / NIDA NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000438438300002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84876485761
- Other Identifier
- 991021875342204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health