Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, School of Dentistry, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
BMC Public Health. 2013 Nov 20;13:1085. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1085.
Physical attributes of the places in which people live, as well as their perceptions of them, may be important health determinants. The perception of place in which people dwell may impact on individual health and may be a more telling indicator for individual health than objective neighborhood characteristics. This paper aims to evaluate psychometric and ecometric properties of a scale on the perceptions of neighborhood problems in adults from Florianopolis, Southern Brazil.
Individual, census tract level (per capita monthly familiar income) and neighborhood problems perception (physical and social disorders) variables were investigated. Multilevel models (items nested within persons, persons nested within neighborhoods) were run to assess ecometric properties of variables assessing neighborhood problems.
The response rate was 85.3%, (1,720 adults). Participants were distributed in 63 census tracts. Two scales were identified using 16 items: Physical Problems and Social Disorder. The ecometric properties of the scales satisfactory: 0.24 to 0.28 for the intra-class correlation and 0.94 to 0.96 for reliability. Higher values on the scales of problems in the physical and social domains were associated with younger age, more length of time residing in the same neighborhood and lower census tract income level.
The findings support the usefulness of these scales to measure physical and social disorder problems in neighborhoods.
人们居住场所的物理属性以及他们对这些场所的感知，可能是重要的健康决定因素。人们对居住场所的感知可能会影响个人健康，并且可能比客观的邻里特征更能说明个人健康状况。本文旨在评估巴西南部弗洛里亚诺波利斯成年人对邻里问题感知的量表的心理计量学和生态计量学特性。
研究了个体、普查地段水平（人均月家庭收入）和邻里问题感知（物理和社会障碍）变量。使用多水平模型（项目嵌套在个人中，个人嵌套在邻里中）评估邻里问题评估变量的生态计量学特性。
应答率为 85.3%（1720 名成年人）。参与者分布在 63 个普查地段。使用 16 个项目确定了两个量表：物理问题和社会障碍。量表的生态计量学特性令人满意：内部分类相关系数为 0.24 至 0.28，可靠性为 0.94 至 0.96。物理和社会领域问题量表的得分较高与年龄较小、在同一社区居住时间较长以及普查地段收入水平较低有关。
这些发现支持使用这些量表来衡量邻里中的物理和社会障碍问题。
