TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Associations between micro-neighborhood greening and child maltreatment
JO  - International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice
A1  - Sokol, Rebeccah L.
A1  - Bushman, Gregory
A1  - Gong, Catherine H.
A1  - Rupp, Laney
A1  - Ryan, Joseph P.
A1  - Zimmerman, Marc A.
SP  - 281
EP  - 293
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
N2  - We conducted a longitudinal observational study of 9873 micro-neighborhoods in a Midwestern city from 2015 to 2018 and estimated multilevel zero-inflated negative binomial models to evaluate if seasonal lawn maintenance of vacant properties was associated with a reduction in microneighborhoods' annual summer maltreatment rates. We found a between-micro-neighborhood effect of maintenance whereby micro-neighborhoods where the entire area was maintained for the full duration of all summers had a maltreatment rate 0.43 (95% CI 0.25, 0.73) times that of micro-neighborhoods that received no maintenance. We also found a within-micro-neighborhood effect, whereby when a given micro-neighborhood had the entire area maintained the full duration of a summer, it was expected to have a maltreatment rate 0.43 (95% CI 0.19, 0.97) times that of when the same micro-neighborhood had no area maintained. Future cluster-randomized controlled trials are needed to determine if this association is causal.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2524-5236
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42448-021-00109-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -