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Comparisons of depression, anxiety, well-being, and perceptions of the built environment amongst adults seeking social, intermediate and market-rent accommodation in the former London Olympic Athletes' Village.

Ram, B; Shankar, A; Nightingale, CM; Giles-Corti, B; Ellaway, A; Cooper, AR; Page, A; Cummins, S; Lewis, D; Whincup, PH; et al. Ram, B; Shankar, A; Nightingale, CM; Giles-Corti, B; Ellaway, A; Cooper, AR; Page, A; Cummins, S; Lewis, D; Whincup, PH; Cook, DG; Rudnicka, AR; Owen, CG (2017) Comparisons of depression, anxiety, well-being, and perceptions of the built environment amongst adults seeking social, intermediate and market-rent accommodation in the former London Olympic Athletes' Village. Health Place, 48. pp. 31-39. ISSN 1873-2054 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.001
SGUL Authors: Nightingale, Claire Shankar, Aparna Ram, Bina

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Abstract

The Examining Neighbourhood Activities in Built Living Environments in London (ENABLE London) study provides a unique opportunity to examine differences in mental health and well-being amongst adults seeking social, intermediate (affordable rent), and market-rent housing in a purpose built neighbourhood (East Village, the former London 2012 Olympic Athletes' Village), specifically designed to encourage positive health behaviours. Multi-level logistic regression models examined baseline differences in levels of depression, anxiety and well-being across the housing groups. Compared with the intermediate group, those seeking social housing were more likely to be depressed, anxious and had poorer well-being after adjustment for demographic and health status variables. Further adjustments for neighbourhood perceptions suggest that compared with the intermediate group, perceived neighbourhood characteristics may be an important determinant of depression amongst those seeking social housing, and lower levels of happiness the previous day amongst those seeking market-rent housing. These findings add to the extensive literature on inequalities in health, and provide a strong basis for future longitudinal work that will examine change in depression, anxiety and well-being after moving into East Village, where those seeking social housing potentially have the most to gain.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: rown Copyright © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/).
Keywords: Anxiety, Built environment, Depression, Neighbourhood, Well-being, 1117 Public Health And Health Services, 1604 Human Geography
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: Health Place
ISSN: 1873-2054
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
November 2017Published
23 September 2017Published Online
3 September 2017Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Projects:
Project IDFunderFunder ID
MR/J000345/1Medical Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
12/211/69National Institute for Health Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272
MC_UU_12017-10Medical Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
1107672National Health and Medical Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000925
PubMed ID: 28917115
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109170
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.001

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