ECO-MIND: enhancing pro-environmental behaviours and mental health through nature contact for urban youth – a research protocol for a multi-country study using geographic ecological momentary assessment and mental models

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Publicado en:BMJ Open vol. 14, no. 10 (2024), p. e083578
Autor principal: Bubalo, Martina
Otros Autores: Karlijn van den Broek, Helbich, Marco, Labib, S M
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100 1 |a Bubalo, Martina  |u Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 
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520 3 |a IntroductionUrban youth are experiencing increasing mental health problems due to diverse personal, social and environmental concerns. Youths’ detachment from natural environments, including green and blue spaces, may intensify such issues further. Contact with nature can benefit mental health and promote pro-environmental behaviour (PEB). Yet, only a few studies assess these relationships among the youth usually ignoring effects of living in diverse urban contexts, and everyday nature experiences. ECO-MIND will investigate whether urban youth’s dynamic greenspace exposure and their mental models about nature connectedness explain the associations between greenspace exposure, mental health and PEB in multiple urban contexts.Methods and analysisWe will collect data from university students from the Global South (ie, Dhaka, Kampala) and Global North cities (ie, Utrecht). Participants aged 18–24 will be recruited through stratified random sampling. We will use geographic ecological momentary assessment to assess respondents’ everyday experiences and exposure to greenspaces. Our definition of greenspace exposure will be based on the availability, accessibility and visibility of greenspaces extracted from satellite and street view images. We will administer a baseline questionnaire to participants about mental health, nature connectedness and PEB characteristics. Further, we will ask participants to build mental models to show their perception of nature connectedness. Finally, we will fit partial least square structural equation models and multi-level models to our longitudinal geographic momentary assessment data.Ethics and disseminationThe study was approved by the Ethical Review Board of the Utrecht University (Geo S-23221). Informed consent must be given freely, without coercion and based on a clear understanding of the participation in the study. Findings will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences. Furthermore, we will implement public engagement activities (eg, panel discussion) to share results among local stakeholders and policymakers and cocreate policy briefs. 
651 4 |a Netherlands 
651 4 |a Kampala Uganda 
651 4 |a Uganda 
653 |a Young adults 
653 |a Population 
653 |a Geography 
653 |a Built environment 
653 |a Stress 
653 |a Research design 
653 |a Data collection 
653 |a Developing countries--LDCs 
653 |a University students 
653 |a Mental health 
653 |a Climate change 
653 |a Longitudinal studies 
653 |a Child & adolescent mental health 
700 1 |a Karlijn van den Broek  |u Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Research Centre for Environmental Economics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany 
700 1 |a Helbich, Marco  |u Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 
700 1 |a Labib, S M  |u Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 
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