THE ROLE OF URBAN BACKYARD IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CONFINEMENT DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592122100110

• Palavras-chave: Corona Virus-19; urban riches; mental health; social distancing.

• Keywords: Corona Virus-19; urban riches; mental health; social distancing.

• Abstract:

  The objective of the present study was to investigate the importance of urban richards for the mental health of individuals, in times of confinement and social detachment due to the pandemic of Corona Virus-19. To this end, a psychosociodemographic questionnaire was applied to 150 people, residents in neighborhoods of the Railway suburb of Salvador, Bahia, regardless of whether or not a yard in the residences. The main results pointed out that the most attributed feelings to this period were sadness (56%), followed by anxiety (54%). It was discovered that 70% of the participants have a backyard in the residence, of these, 26.6% think that people who have a yard were better during the pandemic, and 29.5% pointed to the importance of the yard in the well-being individual, while 13.3% ratified that if he had not had a yard his own well-being he would be committed due to compulsory social isolation. Other studies will be needed in the area of ​​mental health and environment in atypical contexts, such as in a pandemic, in order to propose public policies and other psychosocioeducation interventions more focused on sustainability and ecology in urban media.

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