Development and evaluation of the OHCITIES instrument: assessing alcohol urban environments in the Heart Healthy Hoods project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the development and test-retest reliability of OHCITIES, an instrument characterising alcohol urban environment in terms of availability, promotion and signs of consumption.

Design

This study involved: (1) developing the conceptual framework for alcohol urban environment by means of literature reviewing and previous alcohol environment research experience; (2) pilot testing and redesigning the instrument; (3) instrument digitalisation; (4) instrument evaluation using test-retest reliability.

Setting

Data for testing the reliability of the instrument were collected in seven census sections in Madrid in 2016 by two observers.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

We computed per cent agreement and Cohen's kappa coefficients to estimate int

SUBMITTER: Sureda X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5639986 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature