Optimising measurement of health-related characteristics of the built environment: Comparing data collected by foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and routine secondary data sources.
Optimising measurement of health-related characteristics of the built environment: Comparing data collected by foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and routine secondary data sources.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.001
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发表时间：
2017-01
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4.8
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Lock K
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作者：
Pliakas T;Hawkesworth S;Silverwood RJ;Nanchahal K;Grundy C;Armstrong B;Casas JP;Morris RW;Wilkinson P;Lock K
邻里环境在影响健康行为方面的作用仍然是公共卫生研究和政策中的一个重要主题。基于脚的街道审计、虚拟街道审计和二次数据源是环境-健康协会研究中用于客观测量建成环境的广泛使用的数据收集方法。我们使用在17个英国城镇进行的具有全国代表性的流行病学研究中收集的数据，对这三种方法进行了比较，以了解研究工具的未来发展。基于脚的审计工具与虚拟审计工具之间有很好的一致性。以脚为基础的审计在细节特征方面更具优势。二级数据来源衡量的是当地环境的不同方面，如果得到适当验证，这些方面可以用来得出一系列环境措施。未来的建筑环境研究应该使用多种方法和不同的数据源来设计先验的研究，以便最好地捕捉在不同空间尺度上对不同健康行为起作用的特征。本研究比较了测量建筑环境特征的多种数据收集方法。虚拟街道审计对于更客观的建筑环境测量是可靠的。基于街道的审计在收集详细的环境特征方面更具优势。常规辅助数据源需要的资源较少，但必须进行适当的验证。健康研究的适当方法因研究问题和资源的不同而不同。
The role of the neighbourhood environment in influencing health behaviours continues to be an important topic in public health research and policy. Foot-based street audits, virtual street audits and secondary data sources are widespread data collection methods used to objectively measure the built environment in environment-health association studies. We compared these three methods using data collected in a nationally representative epidemiological study in 17 British towns to inform future development of research tools. There was good agreement between foot-based and virtual audit tools. Foot based audits were superior for fine detail features. Secondary data sources measured very different aspects of the local environment that could be used to derive a range of environmental measures if validated properly. Future built environment research should design studies a priori using multiple approaches and varied data sources in order to best capture features that operate on different health behaviours at varying spatial scales. This study compares multiple data collection methods for measuring built environment features. Virtual street audits are reliable for more objective built environment measures. Street-based audits are superior for collecting fine detail environmental features. Routine secondary data sources need less resources but must be properly validated. Appropriate methods for health studies vary depending on the research question and resources.