2.83 The Role of Neighborhood Disorder in Trajectories of Cognitive Ability and Mental Health Across Early and Middle Childhood: Results From a Street Audit Tool in a General-Population Birth Cohort

Abstract

This presentation will explore the role of the built environment, measured by both objective and subjective data for the neighborhood, in children’s trajectories of mental health and cognition from the early years until the end of primary school in the general population. The studies that have explored the association between the built environment and mental health and cognition in the general child population have produced mixed findings. One reason may be their focus on a single aspect of it. In our study, the built environment was measured in a variety of ways, using both objective and subjective measures of the neighborhood.