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Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

BACKGROUND: Sick Building Syndrome is a diseases associated with indoor air quality accompanied with symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, coughing and sneezing, irritation of eyes, throat and nose mucous membrane, and skin itching and inflammation. The purpose of this study was to investiga...

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Autores principales: Vafaeenasab, Mohammad Reza, Morowatisharifabad, Mohammad Ali, Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi, Hajhosseini, Mahdi, Ehrampoush, Mohammad Hassan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4796380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25716375
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p247
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author Vafaeenasab, Mohammad Reza
Morowatisharifabad, Mohammad Ali
Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi
Hajhosseini, Mahdi
Ehrampoush, Mohammad Hassan
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Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi
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description BACKGROUND: Sick Building Syndrome is a diseases associated with indoor air quality accompanied with symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, coughing and sneezing, irritation of eyes, throat and nose mucous membrane, and skin itching and inflammation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the symptoms of the syndrome and its related factors among nurses in teaching hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. METHODS: The study was conducted amongst nurses of three teaching hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, in Yazd. In this study the MM040EA questionnaire of sick building syndrome and indoor air quality was used and data extracted from the questionnaires were analyzed using the chi-square test and t-test. RESULTS: The prevalence of sick building syndrome was 86.4%. The prevalence of the syndrome was in no association with age, gender, employment history and type of shift work. The most common symptoms reported by nurses included headache, fatigue and dry hands. Lack of sense of airflow, unpleasant odor in workplace (P<0.05), and also the amount of workload (P<0.001) were in relation with sick building syndrome. CONCLUSION: The high prevalence of sick building syndrome symptoms in the nursing environment was associated with factors of unpleasant odor and high workload of environment. So improvement of environmental conditions such as increasing the efficiency of the HVAC system, increasing fresh air flow in the sector, reducing the nurses workload as well as enhancing the quality of working life, will motivate the nurses and increase productivity in the workplace.
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spelling pubmed-47963802016-04-21 Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Vafaeenasab, Mohammad Reza Morowatisharifabad, Mohammad Ali Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi Hajhosseini, Mahdi Ehrampoush, Mohammad Hassan Glob J Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Sick Building Syndrome is a diseases associated with indoor air quality accompanied with symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, coughing and sneezing, irritation of eyes, throat and nose mucous membrane, and skin itching and inflammation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the symptoms of the syndrome and its related factors among nurses in teaching hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. METHODS: The study was conducted amongst nurses of three teaching hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, in Yazd. In this study the MM040EA questionnaire of sick building syndrome and indoor air quality was used and data extracted from the questionnaires were analyzed using the chi-square test and t-test. RESULTS: The prevalence of sick building syndrome was 86.4%. The prevalence of the syndrome was in no association with age, gender, employment history and type of shift work. The most common symptoms reported by nurses included headache, fatigue and dry hands. Lack of sense of airflow, unpleasant odor in workplace (P<0.05), and also the amount of workload (P<0.001) were in relation with sick building syndrome. CONCLUSION: The high prevalence of sick building syndrome symptoms in the nursing environment was associated with factors of unpleasant odor and high workload of environment. So improvement of environmental conditions such as increasing the efficiency of the HVAC system, increasing fresh air flow in the sector, reducing the nurses workload as well as enhancing the quality of working life, will motivate the nurses and increase productivity in the workplace. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015-03 2014-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4796380/ /pubmed/25716375 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p247 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Vafaeenasab, Mohammad Reza
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Ghaneian, Mohammad Taghi
Hajhosseini, Mahdi
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title Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
title_full Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
title_fullStr Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
title_short Assessment of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Associating Factors Among Nurses in the Educational Hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
title_sort assessment of sick building syndrome and its associating factors among nurses in the educational hospitals of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4796380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25716375
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p247
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