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PhenX+ Neighborhood Safetyđź”—

Table Name:
sed_bm_nbhsaf
Full Name:
PhenX+ Toolkit Neighborhood Safety
Construct:
Neighborhood Safety

Administration & Quality Controlđź”—

Child Specific No
Respondent Parent
Administration Self, in person or remote
Visits V01, V02, V07, V09
Completion Time 1 min
Quality Control Data dashboard monitored for missingness.

Instrument Detailsđź”—

This measure is a three-item questionnaire to assess the respondent’s perceptions about safety, violence, and crime in their neighborhoods. Neighborhood safety may be relevant to a range of maternal and child health outcomes. The respondent’s perception of their neighborhood may also be used alongside geocoded measures of neighborhood crime statistics to help understand an individuals experience within a neighborhood. Response options for HBCD include the addition of “Don’t know” and “Decline to answer.” In addition, the original measure was scored by averaging all three items, but no scoring is used in HBCD - all responses are item-level only.

Referencesđź”—

Mujahid, M. S., Diez Roux, A. V., Morenoff, J. D., & Raghunathan, T. (2007). Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics. American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(8), 858–867. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwm040

PhenX Toolkit. (2024 November 01). Neighborhood Safety, PhenX Toolkit. https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/protocols/view/210901