Examining the role of urban parks in the relaxation of citizens with the approach of increasing mental health

Landscapes and urban green spaces are an important part of urban open spaces and they have various types, among the most important types of these places, we can mention urban parks, urban parks themselves also have different categories and according to area And the covered population provides services to the people that the citizens use and attend these places to relax and fill their free time. Based on this, the importance of urban parks in creating peace is considered, and to measure the importance of these places in creating peace, which is the aim of this research, we decided to conduct this research. In this research, library sources, interviews and questionnaires with 13 main questions and five optional options were used to collect the required data, and a total of 125 questionnaires were collected. Also, to check the received data by assigning 4, 3, 0, 2, 1 points respectively to the options I completely agree, I agree, I have no opinion, I disagree, I completely disagree. The results showed that greenness of urban parks with an average score of 3.3 and being with friends in urban parks with an average score of 2.4 are the most important and least important factors of creating peace in urban parks, respectively. In the following, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 5 experts related to the research topic and it was processed by Atlas TI software, which was consistent with the results obtained from the questionnaire. In general, it can be said that city parks play an important role in creating peace in citizens and indicators such as beauty, security, facilities and furniture should be considered in these places so that visitors to city parks enjoy spending their free time in this place and get rid of the fatigue of daily work.