title: Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Senior Walking Environmental Assessment Tool (SWEAT), an instrument for measuring built environmental features associated with physical activity of older adults, was revised to create an easier-to-use tool for use by practitioners and community members.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the modified instrument (SWEAT-R) was assessed in Portland, Oregon in 2007. Five trained observers audited street segments in 12 neighborhoods, resulting in 361 pairs of audits, including 63 repeated audits.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 88% and 75% of items assessed had good or excellent inter-rater and intra-rater reliability, respectively. The revised instrument required less time to complete than the original instrument, while obtaining more information.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SWEAT-R provides easy to gather, reliable data for use in community-based audits of built environment in relation to walking among older adults.
authors.affiliation: Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA. michaely@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Yvonne L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Michael
authors.forename: Erin M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Keast
authors.forename: Habib
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chaudhury
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: Atiya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahmood
authors.forename: Ann F I
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Sarte
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004779:Environment Design / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D016138:Walking