Open Collections

Green Coverage and Willingness to Access Mental Health Services

University of British Columbia. Student Services; University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

Our research focuses on the area of greenery on or around the buildings and the participants' evaluations of these buildings, especially looking into how the green space around a mental health service built on campus influences stressed students' willingness to walk in. The study conducted an online survey using a between-subjects design with 227 university students of all genders and ages as the target population. The survey presented participants with four different conditions: building designs with more than 5 trees, building designs with less than 5 trees, building designs with ivy, and building designs with no trees and no ivy. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions. The four conditions were chosen based on variations in the four different types of building designs and sizes. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions and asked to rate their likelihood of entering each of the four buildings. The obtained statistics found no significant effect of greenery coverage on students' willingness to access mental health services. Besides, the designs of the exterior facade of the mental health services are crucial to the effectiveness of the student's willingness to access. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

Report

eng

2023-09-07

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85838

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/