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dc.contributor.authorHoefelmann, Doroteia Aparecida
dc.contributor.authorDiez-Roux, Ana V
dc.contributor.authorFerreira Antunes, Jose Leopoldo
dc.contributor.authorPeres, Marco Aurelio
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-05T00:21:42Z
dc.date.available2018-10-05T00:21:42Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2458-13-1085
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/380692
dc.description.abstractBackground: Physical attributes of the places in which people live, as well as their perceptions of them, may be important health determinants. The perception of place in which people dwell may impact on individual health and may be a more telling indicator for individual health than objective neighborhood characteristics. This paper aims to evaluate psychometric and ecometric properties of a scale on the perceptions of neighborhood problems in adults from Florianopolis, Southern Brazil. Methods: Individual, census tract level (per capita monthly familiar income) and neighborhood problems perception (physical and social disorders) variables were investigated. Multilevel models (items nested within persons, persons nested within neighborhoods) were run to assess ecometric properties of variables assessing neighborhood problems. Results: The response rate was 85.3%, (1,720 adults). Participants were distributed in 63 census tracts. Two scales were identified using 16 items: Physical Problems and Social Disorder. The ecometric properties of the scales satisfactory: 0.24 to 0.28 for the intra-class correlation and 0.94 to 0.96 for reliability. Higher values on the scales of problems in the physical and social domains were associated with younger age, more length of time residing in the same neighborhood and lower census tract income level. Conclusions: The findings support the usefulness of these scales to measure physical and social disorder problems in neighborhoods.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1085-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1085-10
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBMC Public Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume13
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDentistry not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode320399
dc.titlePerceived neighborhood problems: multilevel analysis to evaluate psychometric properties in a Southern adult Brazilian population
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
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gro.griffith.authorPeres, Marco A.


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