Assessing environmental features related to mental health: A reliability study of visual streetscape images

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Yu Tzu ^a   Nash, Paul ^b   Barnes, Linda E ^a   Minett, Thais ^a   Matthews, Fiona E ^a   Jones, Andy ^c   Brayne, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit tool development; Built environment; Mental health; Neighbourhood; Residential environmental assessment tool

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLAND; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; RETINA IMAGE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOUSEHOLD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEARCH ENGINE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

DATA COLLECTION; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; MAPS AS TOPIC; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEARCH ENGINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORK;

EID: 84940729818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1094     Document Type: Article

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