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Urban community parks have significant benefits for city residents, both physical and spiritual. This is especially true in developing countries, such as China. The purpose of our study is to describe the current situation of the community parks in five main districts of Jinan City while recognizing features of the community parks that influence us...
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... in central Shandong Province, Jinan City is the provincial capital and spans a total area of 10,244.45 km 2 (Figure 1). It is geographically located between 36 • 02 ~37 • 54 north latitude and 116 • 21 ~117 • 93 east longitude. ...
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... Governments have been encouraging the development of natural environments for physical exercise and the United States Center for Disease Control has suggested prescribing exercise in parks as a strategy to achieve this goal, involving families and communities, People's perception of the impact of parks on increasing physical activity in the community Percepção explained by ecological models for behavior change 1,5 . Due to the difficulties in public health, especially in health promotion, international organizations have highlighted the need to prioritize actions to promote physical activity, increasing the availability, access and quality of public places 6 , preferably with assistance/exercise prescription in these places and free of charge 7 . ...
The present study aimed to analyze the probability of people’s responses about the impact of parks on increasing physical activity in the community. Data was collected with park goers and a total of 427 participants responded to the structured questionnaire with a scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 10 (totally). Data was analyzed using multilevel ordinal regression analysis considering the variability by gender, civil state, distance from the park, education, age group, living time in the city, time spent by the users in the park and wage. Participants presented similar probabilities of responses. There were found tendencies of lower impact of the parks in older (> 60 years old) and single people as well as in people living further from the parks (> 6 km). The high probabilities of responses were for values 8, 9 and 10. We can conclude people have a perception of the high impact of the parks on increasing physical activity in the community. This study contributes to encourage stakeholders to act in favor of public open spaces and to develop more action in the spaces that already exist.
