Abstract
Objectives
The aim of the paper is to prove that the COURAGE in Europe Built Environment (CBE)
instrument selected items are relevant to health and disability assessment and evaluation.
Study design
The two lists of the CBE preliminary items – outdoor checklist and self-reported questionnaire
– were linked to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning,
Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) through established linking
rules.
Results
The pool of the CBE 162 preliminary items were linked to a total of 184 categories
of ICF-CY, and belonged mainly to two out of the four of the ICF-CY components. Fifteen
of the items were not linked to any category of the ICF-CY classification at all.
The linking process showed that more than 90% of CBE preliminary items were linked
to ICF-CY categories and more than 4/5 of them were linked to the ICF-CY component
of environmental factors.
Conclusion
The fact that most of the linked CBE preliminary items referred to few ICF categories,
on one hand showed that the ICF framework encompasses a lot of different aspects related
to functioning and disability; on the other hand ICF categories are not very detailed
for a comprehensive description of the built environment features.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 26, 2012
Accepted:
July 6,
2012
Received in revised form:
July 2,
2012
Received:
May 7,
2012
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© 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
