对建筑环境进行参与式虚拟审计,以确保对老年人友好
Angela Curl1, Alison Watkins2, Amanda Smithies2
1Department of Population Health, University of Otago Christchurch, 34 Gloucester Steet, PO Box 4345, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand. angela.curl@otago.ac.nz.
International journal of health geographics
|November 22, 2025
概括
年龄较大的成年人.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 地理空间科学 地理空间科学
- 老年学是一门学科.
背景情况:
- 传统的地理空间研究通常使用研究人员领导的建筑环境的客观测量.
- 这些客观措施可能无法捕捉到老年人的生活经验,这可能解释了缺乏预期的环境健康关联.
- 老年人害怕跌倒可能会限制户外活动,强调了解建筑环境在跌倒风险中的作用的重要性.
研究的目的:
- 探讨老年人对建筑环境的评估,特别是关于摔倒的评估,与研究人员的评估相比如何.
- 调查影响老年人和研究人员对建筑环境感知的差异的人口因素.
- 了解建筑环境属性与老年人对跌倒和行走困难的担忧之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 一个横截面的,回顾性观察性研究,涉及使用谷歌街景对建筑环境的社区审计.
- 老年人和研究人员独立审计了发生落的同一地点.
- 用描述性统计和顺序回归累积链接混合模型来比较审计师的评估.
主要成果:
- 在社区和研究员审计师之间的吸引力评级中发现了显著的差异.
- 场地和个体属性影响了行走困难和跌倒的担忧的评级.
- 单个属性预测了网站的吸引力,而跌倒的危险和斜坡增加了人们对行走困难和跌倒的担忧.
结论:
- 建筑环境的属性显著影响老年人对走路困难和跌倒风险的看法.
- 在地理空间研究中,仅研究人员进行的评估可能会带来偏见,因为与社区审计师相比,人们的看法不同.
- 在地理空间研究中纳入老年人的观点可以提高对老年人友好的环境和他们的经验的测量.
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