Reliability of perceived neighbourhood conditions and the effects of measurement error on self-rated health across urban and rural neighbourhoods

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 342-351

  Pruitt, Sandi L ^a   Jeffe, Donna B ^a,b   Yan, Yan ^a   Schootman, Mario ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; CANCER; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84858299053     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.103325     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Chaix B, Leyland AH, Sabel CE, et al. Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmo, Sweden, in 2001. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:427-35.
2. Muntaner C, Eaton WW, Miech R, et al. Socioeconomic position and major mental disorders. Epidemiol Rev 2004;26:53-62.
3. O'Campo P, Gielen AC, Faden RR, et al. Violence by male partners against women during the childbearing year: a contextual analysis. Am J Public Health 1995;85:1092-7.
4. Pickett KE, Pearl M. Multilevel analyses of neighbourhood socioeconomic context and health outcomes: a critical review. J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:111-22.
5. Robert SA. Socioeconomic position and health: the independent contribution of community socioeconomic context. Ann Rev Sociol 1999;25:489-516.
6. Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW, Earls F. Neighbourhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of collective efficacy. Science 1997;277:918-24.
7. Ross CE, Reynolds JR, Geis KJ. The contingent meaning for neighborhood stability for residents' psychological well-being. Am sociol Rev 2000;65:581-97.
8. Raudenbush SW, Sampson RJ. Ecometrics: toward a science of assessing ecological settings, with application to the systematic social observation of neighborhoods. Sociol Methodol 1999;29:1-41.
9. Ross CE, Mirowsky J. Disorder and decay: the concept and measurement of perceived neighborhood disorder. Urban Aff Rev 1999;34:412-32.
10. Sampson RJ, Raudenbush SW. Seeing disorder: neighborhood stigma and the social construction of "broken windows". Soc Psychol Q 2004;67:319-42.
11. Weden MM, Carpiano RM, Robert SA. Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health. Soc Sci Med 2008;66:1256-70.
12. Wen M, Hawkley LC, Cacioppo JT. Objective and perceived neighborhood environment, individual SES and psychosocial factors, and self-rated health: an analysis of older adults in Cook County, Illinois. Soc Sci Med 2006;63:2575-90.
13. Echeverria S, Diez-Roux AV, Shea S, et al. Associations of neighborhood problems and neighborhood social cohesion with mental health and health behaviors: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Health Place 2008;14:853-65.
14. Gary TL, Safford MM, Gerzoff RB, et al. Perception of neighborhood problems, health behaviors, and diabetes outcomes among adults with diabetes in managed care: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Diabetes Care 2008;31:273-8.
15. Brownson RC, Chang JJ, Eyler AA, et al. Measuring the environment for friendliness toward physical activity: a comparison of the reliability of 3 questionnaires. Am J Public Health 2004;94:473-83.
16. Echeverria SE, Diez-Roux AV, Link BG. Reliability of self-reported neighborhood characteristics. J Urban Health 2004;81:682-701.
17. Kirtland KA, Porter DE, Addy CL, et al. Environmental measures of physical activity supports: perception versus reality. Am J Prev Med 2003;24:323-31.
18. Mujahid MS, Diez Roux AV, Morenoff JD, et al. Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics. Am J Epidemiol 2007;165:858-67.
19. Saelens BE, Sallis JF, Black JB, et al. Neighborhood-based differences in physical activity: an environment scale evaluation. Am J Public Health 2003;93:1552-8.
20. Sallis JF, Johnson MF, Calfas KJ, et al. Assessing perceived physical environmental variables that may influence physical activity. Res Q Exerc Sport 1997;68:345-51.
21. Evenson KR, McGinn AP. Test-retest reliability of a questionnaire to assess physical environmental factors pertaining to physical activity. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2005;2:7.
22. Riva M, Gauvin L, Barnett TA. Toward the next generation of research into small area effects on health: a synthesis of multilevel investigations published since July 1998. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007;61:853-61.
23. Ross CA, Mirowsky J. Neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, and health. J Health Soc Behav 2001;42:258-76.
24. Ross CE. Neighborhood disadvantage and adult depression. J Health Soc Behav 2000;41:177-87.
25. Ross CE, Mirowsky J, Pribesh S. Powerlessness and the amplification of threat: neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, and mistrust. Am sociol Rev 2001;66:568-91.
26. Skjaeveland O, Garling T, Maeland JG. A multidimensional measure of neighbouring. Am J Community Psychol 1996;24:413-35.
27. Haney WG, Knowles ES. Perception of neighborhoods by city and suburban residents. Hum Ecol 1978;6:201-14.
28. Walton D, Murray SJ, Thomas JA. Relationships between population density and the perceived quality of neighbourhood. Soc Indic Res 2008;89:405-20.
29. Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, et al. Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter?: the public health disparities geocoding project. Am J Epidemiol 2002;156:471-82.
30. Singh GK, Miller BA, Hankey BF, et al. Area socioeconomic variations in U.S. cancer incidence, mortality, stage, treatment, and survival, 1975-1999. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No 03-0000, 2003.
31. USDA Economic Research Service. Measuring rurality: rural-urban commuting area codes 2005. http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/rurality/ruralurbancommutingareas/ (accessed 17 Aug 2009).
32. Finch BK, Hummer RA, Reindl M, et al. Validity of self-rated health among Latino(a)s. Am J Epidemiol 2002;155:755-9.
33. Power C, Matthews S, Manor O. Inequalities in self rated health in the 1958 birth cohort: lifetime social circumstances or social mobility? BMJ 1996;313:449-53.
34. Shetterly SM, Baxter J, Mason LD, et al. Self-rated health among hispanic vs non-hispanic white adults: the San Luis Valley Health and Aging Study. Am J Public Health 1996;86:1798-801.
35. Shrout PE, Fleiss JL. Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychol Bull 1979;86:420-8.
36. McGraw KO, Wong SP. Forming inferences about some intraclass correlation coefficients. Psychol Methods 1996;1:30-46.
37. Efron B, Tibshirani RJ. An introduction to the boostrap. Chapter 16, Hypothesis testing with the bootstrap. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1993.
38. Cohen J. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educ Psychol Meas 1960;20:37-46.
39. Brenner H, Kliebsch U. Dependence of weighted kappa coefficients on the number of categories. Epidemiology 1996;7:199-202.
40. Abramson JH. WINPEPI (PEPI-for-Windows): computer programs for epidemiologists. Epidemiol Perspect Inno 2004;1:6.
41. Fleiss JL, Levin B, Paik MC. Statistical methods for rates and proportions. 3rd edn. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
42. Byrt T, Bishop J, Carlin JB. Bias, prevalence and kappa. J Clin Epidemiol 1993;46:423-9.
43. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977;33:159-74.
44. Nunnally JC. Psychometric theory. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1994.
45. Carroll RJ, Ruppert D, Stefanski LA. Measurement error in non-linear models. In: Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability 63. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall, 1995.
46. Stata Statistical Software/IC: Release 10.1 College Station, TX: StataCorp LP, 2009.
47. R Development Core Team. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. http://www.R-project.org. R foundation for statistical computing, Vienna, Austria, 12 Jul 2010. ISBN 3-900051-07-0.
48. Council of American Survey Research Organizations. On the definition of response rates: A special report from the CASRO Task Force on Completion Rates. Port Jefferson, NY: CASRO, 1982.
49. Raudenbush SW. The quantitative assessment of neighborhood social environments. In: Neighborhoods and health. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003:112-31.
50. Kawachi I, Kim D, Coutts A, et al. Commentary: reconciling the three accounts of social capital. Int J Epidemiol 2004;33:682-90; discussion 700-4.
51. Peterson LE, Tsai AC, Petterson S, et al. Rural-urban comparison of contextual associations with self-reported mental health status. Health Place 2009;15:125-32.