Development of the Scottish walkability assessment tool (SWAT)
Millington, Catherine and Ward Thompson, Catherine and Rowe, David and Aspinall, Peter and Fitzsimons, Claire and Nelson, Norah and Mutrie, Nanette, SPARColl (2009) Development of the Scottish walkability assessment tool (SWAT). Health and Place, 15 (2). pp. 474-481. ISSN 1353-8292 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.09.007)
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The Scottish Walkability Assessment Tool (SWAT) was designed to objectively record aspects of the physical environment believed to be related to walking in urban Scotland. Reliability was assessed by three pairs of trained raters auditing 30 street segments on two occasions. Eighteen items were reliably audited and displayed adequate environmental variability, 25 items proved unreliable, and 69 items lacked adequate environmental variability. The large number of items that lacked environmental variability indicates a relatively uniform environment in terms of characteristics, which the literature indicates might be used to differentiate walkability; however, the 18 reliable items can potentially be used to differentiate walkability. Keywords: Physical environment; Urban; Walking; Walkability; Audit tool; Reliability
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Item type: Article ID code: 13073 Dates: DateEvent30 June 2009Published17 October 2008Published Online5 September 2008AcceptedSubjects: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > Recreation Leisure
Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Personal health and hygiene, including exercise, nutritionDepartment: Faculty of Education > Sport, Culture and The Arts
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Physical Activity for HealthDepositing user: Chloe McAdam Date deposited: 21 Sep 2009 09:52 Last modified: 02 Aug 2024 00:43 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/13073