How Older People Experience the Age-Friendliness of Their City
Development of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities QuestionnaireHow Older People Experience the Age-Friendliness of Their City
Development of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities QuestionnaireSamenvatting
The World Health Organization engages cities and communities all over the world in becoming age-friendly. There is a need for assessing the age-friendliness of cities and communities by means of a transparently constructed and validated tool which measures the construct as a whole. The aim of this study was to develop a questionnaire measuring age-friendliness, providing full transparency and reproducibility. The development and validation of the Age Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) followed the criteria of the COnsensus-based Standards for selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN). Four phases were followed: (1) development of the conceptual model, themes and items; (2) initial (qualitative) validation; (3) psychometric validation, and (4) translating the instrument using the forward-backward translation method. This rigorous process of development and validation resulted in a valid, psychometrically sound, comprehensive 23-item questionnaire. This questionnaire can be used to measure older people’s experiences regarding the eight domains of the WHO Age-Friendly Cities model, and an additional financial domain. The AFCCQ allows practitioners and researchers to capture the age-friendliness of a city or community in a numerical fashion, which helps monitor the age-friendliness and the potential impact of policies or social programmes. The AFCCQ was created in Dutch and translated into British-English.
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Original article: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186867
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers "Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives")
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Extra: Vragenlijst bijlage / Questionnaire attachement
Organisatie | De Haagse Hogeschool |
Afdeling | Faculteit Sociaal Werk & Educatie |
Faculteit Gezondheid, Voeding & Sport | |
Lectoraat | Lectoraat Urban Ageing |
Gepubliceerd in | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health MDPI, Basel (Switzerland), Vol. 17, Uitgave: 18 (afl. 6867), Pagina's: 1-24 |
Datum | 2020-09-20 |
Type | Artikel |
DOI | 10.3390/ijerph17186867 |
Taal | Engels |