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Citation

Ruest N, Hagel BE, McCORMACK GR, Nettel-Aguirre A, Rowe BH. Inj. Prev. 2012; 18(Suppl 1): A80.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040580g.26

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background Environmental audit tools must be valid in order to accurately estimate the association between built environmental characteristics and bicycling injury risk.

Objectives To examine the inter-rater reliability of a built environment audit tool in a case-control study on the environmental determinants of bicycling injuries.

Methods Auditor pairs visited locations where bicycling injuries were known to have occurred in two cities, and recorded location characteristics using the validated Systematic Pedestrian and Cyclist Environmental Scan (SPACES). Case locations were those where a bicyclist was struck by a motor-vehicle (MV), or suffered injuries requiring hospitalisation. Control locations were those where non-MV or minor injuries occurred. Inter-rater reliability of each item on the tool was assessed using observed agreement and Kappa (κ).

Results Ninety-seven locations were audited from May-October 2010. Inter-observer agreement was generally high (≥95%); most items had a 1-2% difference in responses. Items with differences ≥5% between raters included path condition, slope, and obstructions. For land use, path, and roadway characteristics, κ ranged from 0.3 for presence of offices and cleanliness to 0.9 for schools and number of lanes; overall, 78% of items had high agreement (κ≥0.61). For MV cases the proportion of items with high agreement was 60%, compared with 73% for controls. For both severe cases and controls, 76% of items had high agreement.

Significance Despite low reliability for land use types and cleanliness, percent agreement was high for most items. Our findings suggest that the SPACES tool provides reliable quantitative descriptions of built environmental characteristics at bicycle injury locations.

This is an abstract of a presentation at Safety 2012, the 11th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 1-4 October 2012, Michael Fowler Center, Wellington, New Zealand. Full text does not seem to be available for this abstract.

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