دورية أكاديمية

The Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for the Republic of Korea: Reliability and Relationship with Walking

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for the Republic of Korea: Reliability and Relationship with Walking
المؤلفون: Hyunshik KIM, Younglae CHOI, Jiameng MA, Kuam HYUNG, Masashi MIYASHITA, Sunkyoung LEE
المصدر: Iranian Journal of Public Health, Vol 45, Iss 11, Pp 1427-1435 (2016)
بيانات النشر: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: LCC:Public aspects of medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
الوصف: Background: The aim of the study was to analyze the reliability of the Korean version of the NEWS and to investigate the relationship between walking and environmental factors by gender.Methods: A total of 1407 Korean adults, aged 20-59 yr, participated in the study. Data were collected between Sep 2013 and Oct 2013. To examine the test-retest reliability, 281 of the 1407 participants were asked to answer the same questionnaire (Korean NEWS-A scale) after a 7-d interval.Results: The ICC range of the entire questionnaire was 0.71-0.88. The item on land use mix-diversity had the highest ICC, and that on physical barriers had the lowest. In addition, presents the partial correlation coefficients for walking and the NEWS-A score, adjusted for social demographic variables. Overall, land use mix-diversity (PPDiscussion: Examination of the reliability of the Korean NEWS-A scale based on Korean adults who reside in large cities showed that all items had statistically satisfactory reliability. Korean NEWS-A scale may be a useful measure for assessing environmental correlates of walking among population in Korea. Keywords: Environment, Physical activity, Korean NEWS-A, Reliability
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2251-6085
2251-6093
Relation: http://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/8344; https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6085; https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6093
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e5ee9c9fee5e44558e66d2d2dc7aabd9
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.5ee9c9fee5e44558e66d2d2dc7aabd9
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