TY - JOUR AU - Cerin, Ester AU - Conway, Terry L. AU - Cain, Kelli L. AU - Kerr, Jacqueline AU - De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse AU - Owen, Neville AU - Reis, Rodrigo S. AU - Sarmiento, Olga L. AU - Hinckson, Erica A. AU - Salvo, Deborah AU - Christiansen, Lars B. AU - MacFarlane, Duncan J. AU - Davey, Rachel AU - Mitáš, Josef AU - Aguinaga-Ontoso, Ines AU - Sallis, James F. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/04/08 TI - Sharing good NEWS across the world: developing comparable scores across 12 countries for the neighborhood environment walkability scale (NEWS) JO - BMC Public Health SP - 309 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - The IPEN (International Physical Activity and Environment Network) Adult project seeks to conduct pooled analyses of associations of perceived neighborhood environment, as measured by the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) and its abbreviated version (NEWS-A), with physical activity using data from 12 countries. As IPEN countries used adapted versions of the NEWS/NEWS-A, this paper aimed to develop scoring protocols that maximize cross-country comparability in responses. This information is also highly relevant to non-IPEN studies employing the NEWS/NEWS-A, which is one of the most popular measures of perceived environment globally. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-309 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-13-309 ID - Cerin2013 ER -