The Lot Assessment of Neighborhood Disorder Virtual Audit Tool: A Valid and Reliable Five-Item Physical Neighborhood Disorder Measure.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood physical disorder is linked to deleterious resident physical and mental health. It is thus critical to develop low-cost, reliable methods that utilize publicly available imagery (e.g., Google Street View; GSV) to comprehensively audit neighborhoods. We aimed to create a reliable, efficient, and scale-flexible virtual audit of neighborhood disorder (Lot Assessment of Neighborhood Disorder; LAND) that can be aggregated to larger geographical units. A total of 710 block faces on 355 street segments were coded in Detroit, MI. We tested reliability between coders on 20% of the sample (71 segments (i.e., two sides of the street); 146 block faces (i.e., one side of the street) and found reliability was adequate at the individual lot (Kappas ranged from .60 - 1), block face (ICCs rang

SUBMITTER: Shewark EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12459647 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature