Is Your Neighborhood Designed to Support Physical Activity? A Brief Streetscape Audit Tool
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 12 — September 3, 2015
PEER REVIEWED
15-Item Streetscape Audit for Physical Activity-Supportiveness of Environments: MAPS-Mini
Figure 1. Association of active transport with MAPS-Mini scores (percentage of total possible) ranked in quintiles from the poorest (lowest quintile) to the best (highest quintile) activity supportive microscale attributes of the built environment in the 2 younger age groups. Quintiles for children ranged from 13.3% to 54.0% and quintiles for adolescents, 15.7% to 61.9%.
| Quintile | Children | Adolescents |
|---|---|---|
| Active Transport (Category Score Range, 0-4) | Active Transport (Category Score Range, 0-4) | |
| 1st | 0.9 | 1.1 |
| 2nd | 1.0 | 1.3 |
| 3rd | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| 4th | 1.1 | 1.5 |
| 5th | 1.2 | 1.6 |
15-Item Streetscape Audit for Physical Activity-Supportiveness of Environments: MAPS-Mini
Figure 2. Association of active transport with MAPS-Mini scores (percentage of total possible) ranked in quintiles from the poorest (lowest quintile) to the best (highest quintile) activity supportive microscale attributes of the built environment in the 2 older age groups. Quintiles for younger adults ranged from 14.6% to 59.2%; for older adults, 14.4% to 64.0%. For a complete comparison of quintile total scores with age group activity scores, see Appendix.
| Quintile | Younger Adults | Older Adults |
|---|---|---|
| Active Transport (d/wk) | Active Transport (times/wk) | |
| 1st | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| 2nd | 0.9 | 0.4 |
| 3rd | 1.1 | 0.5 |
| 4th | 1.3 | 0.7 |
| 5th | 1.6 | 0.8 |