Journal article
Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool
Preventive medicine, v 48(3)
2009
PMID: 19136025
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Abstract
The Senior Walking Environmental Assessment Tool (SWEAT), an instrument for measuring built environmental features associated with physical activity of older adults, was revised to create an easier-to-use tool for use by practitioners and community members.
Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the modified instrument (SWEAT-R) was assessed in Portland, Oregon in 2007. Five trained observers audited street segments in 12 neighborhoods, resulting in 361 pairs of audits, including 63 repeated audits.
Overall, 88% and 75% of items assessed had good or excellent inter-rater and intra-rater reliability, respectively. The revised instrument required less time to complete than the original instrument, while obtaining more information.
SWEAT-R provides easy to gather, reliable data for use in community-based audits of built environment in relation to walking among older adults.
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- Title
- Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool
- Creators
- Yvonne L Michael - Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USAErin M Keast - Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USAHabib Chaudhury - Gerontology, Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaKristen Day - Planning, Policy and Design, University of California – Irvine, Irvine, California, USAAtiya Mahmood - Design and Human Environment, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USAAnn F.I Sarte - Gerontology, Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Publication Details
- Preventive medicine, v 48(3)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000264738900009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-61849174785
- Other Identifier
- 991014878027304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health