The interrater reliability of the Community Health Environment Checklist.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the interrater reliability of the Community Health Environment Checklist.


METHODS
Thirty buildings were randomly selected. Three trained raters assessed each destination with the Community Health Environment Checklist.


METHODS
All buildings assessed during this study were located in an urban community in St. Louis, Missouri.


METHODS
Buildings represent 13 categories of building type from a defined geographic region.


METHODS
Not applicable.


METHODS
The outcome measure in this study was the Community Health Environment Checklist, which is used to quantify the receptivity of public buildings from the perspectives of people with mobility impairments.


RESULTS
The findings suggest that the subscales of the Community Health Environment Checklist have excellent interrater reliability coefficients, (intraclass correlation coefficient, .76-.99).


CONCLUSIONS
The findings of this study provide preliminary data to support the clinical utility of the Community Health Environment Checklist as a measure of the receptivity of the physical environment for persons with mobility impairments.
Stark
Susan L
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Program in Occupational Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA. sstark@wustl.edu
Hollingsworth
Holly
H
Morgan
Kerri
K
Chang
Melissa
M
Gray
David B
DB
D001107:Architectural Accessibility; D002958:City Planning; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results