Research On The Effect Of Residential Environment On Mental Health Of Residents

With the rapid development of urbanization in China,while bringing great improvement to the urban residential environment,it also has a certain impact on the physical and mental health of residents.Some recent evidence shows that environmental problems such as overcrowding,traffic congestion,and air pollution have a negative impact on residents' mental health.Based on this,to explore the relationship between urban residential environment and human mental health,a series of empirical studies have been carried out to reveal the effects of various residential environment factors on people's mental health based on the theoretical discussion of environmental psychology and healthy city.In order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the residential environment factors,the bibliometric method was used to analyze the empirical research of the residential environment and mental health.Four ways to obtain the residential environment factors and 43 key factors of the residential environment were summarized.In order to further explore the influence of these factors on residents' mental health,a set of questionnaire was designed based on literature analysis and field investigation.Clinical investigation was carried out in Wuhan Tongji Hospital.After the 558 effective clinical questionnaires and the corresponding clinical depression diagnosis information were collected,31 depression risk factors were determined by drawing the visual correlation matrix.In addition,random forest and association rules algorithm were used to analyze the effects of single residential environment factor and multiple residential environment factors to depression.By establishing a random forest evaluation model,a total of 16 factors that have a significant impact on the depression have been identified.Order by importance: air quality,indoor noise,indoor lighting,pollutions,safety facilities,solitude,traffic congestion,commercial accessibility,housing facilities,housing ownership,housing structure quality and housing proximity to streets.Among them,as for the housing environment,factors that related to the indoor physical environment are the most influential factors;as for the community environment,factors that related to the environmental pollution are the most influential factors.Through the association rules for data mining,a total of 61 two-factor association rules and 25 three-factor association rules was identified.From the result,in terms of increasing the risk of depression,the combination of elder and lack of public service facilities has the most significant impact on depression;from the degree of contribution to the depression,crowed residential conditions and the lack of public service facilities contribute most to the depression.According to the analysis results of this study,from the perspectives of urban planning department,property service enterprise and resident individual,suggestions and measures are put forward for urban residential area planning,community management,housing improvement and other aspects to improve the residential environment in China.Provide reference for the construction of healthy cities.According to the results,from the aspects of urban planning,property service and so on,some suggestions and measures were put forward form the aspects of urban land planning,community management and so on,which can provide reference for the improvement of urban residential environment and healthy urban construction in China.