Parents’ Perception of Neighborhood’s Health Safety: An Investigation in Karsiyaka for Pre and Post COVID-19 Outbreak

Abstract

The arrangements taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic not only cause limitations on children’s open space interaction but also increase the lack of physical activity in children, which is already a major public health problem. While it is argued that open space restrictions cause a lack of physical activity in the current situation, it should be taken into account that the health safety perception on the neighborhood or urban areas in the future may also be effective in the physical activity place preferences of children. This study aimed to determine the changes in the places where children do physical activity before and after the pandemic period and to determine whether a pandemic-based health safety perception on the neighborhood is formed through these changes. In this study, an online survey was conducted with 1559 parents with children who were educated in 27 public primary schools in Karşıyaka province during the pandemic period. Results clued in the changes in physical activity place compared to before pandemic, and these changes develop a health safety perception over the cleanliness criteria of the physical activity places. This study will contribute important data to urban design literature on the relation between COVID-19 and urban space use.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• health safety perception
• neighborhood
• child
• physical activity

Ebeveynlerin Mahallelerine Yönelik Sağlık Güvenliği Algısı: COVID-19 Salgını Öncesi ve Sonrası İçin Karşıyaka’da Bir Araştırma

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemisiyle mücadele kapsamında alınan önlemler, çocukların dış mekan etkileşimini kısıtlamakta ve halihazırda önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunu olan çocuklarda fiziksel aktivite eksikliğini olumsuz açıdan arttıran bir etki yaratmaktadır. Güncel durumda dış mekan kısıtlamalarının fiziksel aktivite eksikliğine neden olduğu tartışılmaktayken, ileriki dönemde yaşanılan mahalleye ya da kentsel alanlara ilişkin oluşacak sağlık güvenliği algısının, çocukların fiziksel aktivitelerini gerçekleştirecekleri dış mekan tercihlerinde de etkili olabileceği göz önünde bulundurulmalıdır. Bu çalışmada pandemi dönemi öncesi ve sonrasında çocukların fiziksel aktivite yaptığı mekanlardaki değişimleri belirlemek ve bu değişimler üzerinden pandemi temelli bir sağlık güvenliği algısının oluşup oluşmadığını tespit etmek amaçlanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında pandemi döneminde Karşıyaka ilçesinde 27 devlet ilkokulunda eğitim almış çocuğu olan 1559 ebeveyn ile çevrimiçi bir anket yapılmıştır. Sonuçlar, pandemi öncesine göre fiziksel aktivite mekanında değişimler olduğuna, bu değişimin fiziksel aktivite yapılan mekanların temizlik ölçütü üzerinden gelişen bir “sağlık güvenliği algısı” nedeniyle oluştuğuna ilişkin ipuçları barındırmaktadır. Bu çalışma, COVID-19 ile kentsel mekan kullanımı arasındaki ilişkiye dair kentsel tasarım literatürüne önemli bir katkı koyacaktır.

Keywords

• covid-19
• sağlık güvenliği algısı
• mahalle
• çocuk
• fiziksel aktivite

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