Public bathrooms are sensible locations in which individuals confront an intimate environment outside the comfort of their own home. The assessment of public bathrooms is especially problematic for people whose illnesses make them more prone to needing this service. Unfortunately, there is a lack in the evaluation of the elements that are relevant to the user’s perspective. For that reason, we propose a new scale to assess these elements of evaluation of public bathrooms. We developed a scale of 14 items and three domains: privacy, ease of use and cleanliness. We tested the factor validity of this three-factor solution (n = 654) on a sample of healthy individuals and 155 respondents with a bowel illness or other affection that reported to be bathroom-dependent. We found that bathroom-dependent people value more privacy and cleanliness more than their healthy counterparts. We additionally found a gender effect on the scale: female participants scored higher in every domain. This study provides the first scale to assess value concerning public bathrooms and to highlight the relevance of different bathrooms’ aspects to users.

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公共浴室感知量表的发展

公共浴室是明智的选择，个人可以在自己舒适的家外面对亲密的环境。对于病情使他们更容易需要这项服务的人们，公共浴室的评估尤其成问题。不幸的是，缺少与用户观点相关的元素的评估。因此，我们提出了一种新的量表来评估这些评估公共浴室的要素。我们制定了14个项目的规模，并划分了三个领域：隐私，易用性和清洁度。我们测试了此三因素解决方案（n= 654）的健康个体样本和155名据报与浴室有关的肠病或其他疾病的受访者中。我们发现，依赖浴室的人们比健康的人们更重视隐私和清洁。此外，我们还发现了性别影响的尺度：女性参与者在每个领域的得分都更高。这项研究提供了第一个量表，用于评估有关公共浴室的价值并强调不同浴室方面对用户的相关性。