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For Denver residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, spending a lot of time in green space was associated with lower anxiety and depression

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For Denver residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, spending a lot of time in green space was associated with lower anxiety and depression

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263779

Article title: Perceptions of green space usage, abundance, and quality of green space were associated with better mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic among residents of Denver

Author countries: U.S.A.

Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the Harvard JPB Environmental Health Fellowship (CER) and the Developmental Core of the University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC) (CER). The CUPC is supported by funds from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number P2CHD066613. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. NIH and CUPC did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Researchers at Harvard provided feedback on the study design, but the JPB funders did not. Neither JPB nor Harvard played a role in the data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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