Journal article
Street Audits to Measure Neighborhood Disorder: Virtual or In-Person?
American journal of epidemiology, v 186(3), pp 265-273
01 Aug 2017
PMID: 28899028
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Abstract
Neighborhood conditions may influence a broad range of health indicators, including obesity, injury, and psychopathology. In particular, neighborhood physical disorder-a measure of urban deterioration-is thought to encourage crime and high-risk behaviors, leading to poor mental and physical health. In studies to assess neighborhood physical disorder, investigators typically rely on time-consuming and expensive in-person systematic neighborhood audits. We compared 2 audit-based measures of neighborhood physical disorder in the city of Detroit, Michigan: One used Google Street View imagery from 2009 and the other used an in-person survey conducted in 2008. Each measure used spatial interpolation to estimate disorder at unobserved locations. In total, the virtual audit required approximately 3% of the time required by the in-person audit. However, the final physical disorder measures were significantly positively correlated at census block centroids (r = 0.52), identified the same regions as highly disordered, and displayed comparable leave-one-out cross-validation accuracy. The measures resulted in very similar convergent validity characteristics (correlation coefficients within 0.03 of each other). The virtual audit-based physical disorder measure could substitute for the in-person one with little to no loss of precision. Virtual audits appear to be a viable and much less expensive alternative to in-person audits for assessing neighborhood conditions.
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- Title
- Street Audits to Measure Neighborhood Disorder: Virtual or In-Person?
- Creators
- Stephen J. Mooney - University of WashingtonMichael D. M. Bader - American UniversityGina S. Lovasi - Drexel UniversityJulien O. Teitler - Columbia UniversityKarestan C. Koenen - Harvard University ,Allison E. Aiello - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSandro Galea - Boston UniversityEmily Goldmann - Global Public HealthDaniel M. Sheehan - Columbia UniversityAndrew G. Rundle - Columbia University
- Publication Details
- American journal of epidemiology, v 186(3), pp 265-273
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- R21HD062965; P2CHD058486; T32HD057822 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) P2CHD050924 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R21HD062965 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R01DA022720 / National Institute on Drug Abuse; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); European Commission
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000406750700001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85029210922
- Other Identifier
- 991019168162004721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health