Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool

Yvonne L. Michael; Erin M. Keast; Habib Chaudhury; Kristen Day; Atiya Mahmood; Ann F I Sarte

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.008

Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool

Yvonne L. Michael, Erin M. Keast, Habib Chaudhury, Kristen Day, Atiya Mahmood, Ann F I Sarte

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Background: 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. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusion: SWEAT-R provides easy to gather, reliable data for use in community-based audits of built environment in relation to walking among older adults.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	247-249
Number of pages	3
Journal	Preventive Medicine
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.008
State	Published - Mar 2009

Keywords

Environment
Instrumentation
Older adults
Reproducibility of results
Research design
Residence characteristics
Walking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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