社区公园对老年使用者体力活动参与和情绪改善的促进作用--以上海市15座社区公园为例

The Role of Urban Community Park in Promoting Seniors'Physical Activity and Positive Emotion—A Case Study of 15 Shanghai Community Parks

社区公园是老年人日常活动的重要场所.设计合理的社区公园可促进老年使用者的体力活动参与和情绪改善,为其带来较多健康益处.在定量层面探索了社区公园的设计特征与老年使用者在公园中的体力活动强度及情绪改善的关系.利用计步器测量老年人在公园中的行走步数;利用PANAS量表与视觉模拟评估法测量老年人使用公园前后的情绪变化;利用便携式GPS设备每隔10s记录老年人在公园中的空间位置点.研究结果表明,老年人在面积较大的社区公园中会行走更多的步数;访问社区公园可缓解老年人的消极情绪,促进积极情绪.基于GPS空间位置点的热点识别表明,广场、健身设施区、树林区、滨水区和植物廊架区是老年人的停留热点.这些研究结果可为社区公园规划设计提供一定参考,促进满足老年人需求的健康公园建设.

Community parks are important settings where seniors engage in daily recreational activity.Properly-designed community park can promote seniors to engage in physical activity and to enhance their moods,thus bring tremendous health benefits.This study examines the associations between community park design characteristics and seniors'physical activity and mood improvement.The study utilizes pedometer to measure seniors'walking step in the park;uses GPS equipment to record seniors'positional location at an interval of 10 seconds.The results indicate that seniors walk more steps in larger community park,visiting community park can mitigate negative emotion and promote positive emotion.Using GPS locational points,the hot spot analysis indicates that square,fitness equipment area,grove,waterfront and featured planting are where seniors prefer to stay.These results provide implications to community park design,and ultimately promote the building of healthy urban park that fulfill seniors'needs.