Sokağa Çıkmak Yasak!: COVID 19 salgını sonrasında çocukların kentsel yeşil alanlara ve oyun alanlarına erişiminin ve kullanımının değişen durumuna ilişkin ebeveyn algısı

Bir yıldan biraz daha uzun bir süre önce, yeni keşfedilen bir virüsle hayatımız tamamen değişti. Coronavirüs ailesinin bu yeni türü, Çin'de hızla birçok insana bulaştı. Artık yaygın olarak COVID-19 olarak adlandırılan virüs, uluslararası uçuşlarla da dünyamızın neredeyse her yerine bulaşarak küresel bir pandemiye neden oldu. Bu yeni durum birçok çocuğun günlük hayatını değiştirdi. COVID-19 pandemisinin ilk aylarında, dünyadaki tüm çocukların yaklaşık %99,5'i hareket kısıtlamaları ve %60'ı tam veya kısmi karantina altında yaşadı. Türkiye'de ise çocuklar 2 aydan fazla bir süre dışarı çıkış izinleri olmadan yaşadılar. Bu çalışma, karantina sürecinin çocukların günlük yaşamlarına, fiziksel aktivite örüntülerine, kentsel yeşil alanlara ve oyun alanlarına yapılan ziyaretlere etkisini anlamayı amaçlamıştır. Ortaya çıkan bulgular, karantina sırasında çocukların günlük alışkanlıklarının değiştiğini gösteriyor. Birçok çocuk can sıkıntısı, yalnızlık, iletişim eksikliği, kaygı ve hatta depresyon belirtileri gösterdi. Çocuklar televizyon izlemeye daha fazla zaman ayırdılar. Çocukların yarısından biraz fazlası her gün fiziksel aktivite için sadece yaklaşık bir saat harcarken, üçte biri herhangi bir fiziksel aktivite için hiç zaman ayırmadılar. Kentsel yeşil alanları ve oyun alanlarını ziyaret eden çocukların yüzdesi hızla azaldı. Ortalama olarak, çocuklar kentsel yeşil alanlara COVID-19'dan önce ziyaret ettiklerinden 27 dakika daha kısa ziyaretlerde bulundular.

Locked-down!: Parental perception of children’s changing access and use of urban green spaces and playgrounds after COVID 19 outbreak

Slightly more than a year ago, our lives have completely changed with a newly discovered virus. This new strain of Coronavirus family has rapidly infected many people in china. The virus, now commonly called COVID-19, has also transferred to almost every part of our world with international flights, causing a global pandemic. This new situation has changed many children’s daily lives. During the first months of COVID-19 pandemics, almost 99.5% of all children in the world lived with movement restrictions and 60% lived under full or partial lockdowns. In Turkey, children locked down for over 2 months with no outside permission. This study aimed to understand effect of lockdown process on children’s daily lives, physical activity patterns, and visits urban green spaces and playgrounds. The emerging findings illustrate that children’s daily habits have changed during the lockdown. Many children showed symptoms of boredom, loneliness, lack of communication, anxiety and even depression. Children invested more time in watching TV. Slightly more than half of the children spent only around an hour for physical activity every day, and a third of children have spent no time on any physical activity. Percentage of children visiting urban green spaces and playgrounds declined rapidly. On average, children payed 27 minutes shorter visits to urban green spaces than they visited before COVID-19.

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