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Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics
The development of underground workspaces is a strategic effort towards healthy urban growth in cities with ever-increasing land scarcity. Despite the growth in underground workspaces, there is limited information regarding the impact of this environment on workers’ health. The Health Effects of Und...
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Korean Society of Epidemiology
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31623427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2019025 |
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author | Dunleavy, Gerard Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu Nazeha, Nuraini Soljak, Michael Visvalingam, Nanthini Bajpai, Ram Yap, Hui Shan Roberts, Adam C. Thach, Thuan Quoc Tonon, André Comiran Soh, Chee Kiong Christopoulos, Georgios Cheung, Kei Long de Vries, Hein Car, Josip |
author_facet | Dunleavy, Gerard Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu Nazeha, Nuraini Soljak, Michael Visvalingam, Nanthini Bajpai, Ram Yap, Hui Shan Roberts, Adam C. Thach, Thuan Quoc Tonon, André Comiran Soh, Chee Kiong Christopoulos, Georgios Cheung, Kei Long de Vries, Hein Car, Josip |
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description | The development of underground workspaces is a strategic effort towards healthy urban growth in cities with ever-increasing land scarcity. Despite the growth in underground workspaces, there is limited information regarding the impact of this environment on workers’ health. The Health Effects of Underground Workspaces (HEUW) study is a cohort study that was set up to examine the health effects of working in underground workspaces. In this paper, we describe the rationale for the study, study design, data collection, and baseline characteristics of participants. The HEUW study recruited 464 participants at baseline, of whom 424 (91.4%) were followed-up at 3 months and 334 (72.0%) at 12 months from baseline. We used standardized and validated questionnaires to collect information on socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics, medical history, family history of chronic diseases, sleep quality, health-related quality of life, chronotype, psychological distress, occupational factors, and comfort levels with indoor environmental quality parameters. Clinical and anthropometric parameters including blood pressure, spirometry, height, weight, and waist and hip circumference were also measured. Biochemical tests of participants’ blood and urine samples were conducted to measure levels of glucose, lipids, and melatonin. We also conducted objective measurements of individuals’ workplace environment, assessing air quality, light intensity, temperature, thermal comfort, and bacterial and fungal counts. The findings this study will help to identify modifiable lifestyle and environmental parameters that are negatively affecting workers’ health. The findings may be used to guide the development of more health-promoting workspaces that attempt to negate any potential deleterious health effects from working in underground workspaces. |
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spelling | pubmed-68158772019-10-31 Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics Dunleavy, Gerard Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu Nazeha, Nuraini Soljak, Michael Visvalingam, Nanthini Bajpai, Ram Yap, Hui Shan Roberts, Adam C. Thach, Thuan Quoc Tonon, André Comiran Soh, Chee Kiong Christopoulos, Georgios Cheung, Kei Long de Vries, Hein Car, Josip Epidemiol Health Cohort Profile The development of underground workspaces is a strategic effort towards healthy urban growth in cities with ever-increasing land scarcity. Despite the growth in underground workspaces, there is limited information regarding the impact of this environment on workers’ health. The Health Effects of Underground Workspaces (HEUW) study is a cohort study that was set up to examine the health effects of working in underground workspaces. In this paper, we describe the rationale for the study, study design, data collection, and baseline characteristics of participants. The HEUW study recruited 464 participants at baseline, of whom 424 (91.4%) were followed-up at 3 months and 334 (72.0%) at 12 months from baseline. We used standardized and validated questionnaires to collect information on socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics, medical history, family history of chronic diseases, sleep quality, health-related quality of life, chronotype, psychological distress, occupational factors, and comfort levels with indoor environmental quality parameters. Clinical and anthropometric parameters including blood pressure, spirometry, height, weight, and waist and hip circumference were also measured. Biochemical tests of participants’ blood and urine samples were conducted to measure levels of glucose, lipids, and melatonin. We also conducted objective measurements of individuals’ workplace environment, assessing air quality, light intensity, temperature, thermal comfort, and bacterial and fungal counts. The findings this study will help to identify modifiable lifestyle and environmental parameters that are negatively affecting workers’ health. The findings may be used to guide the development of more health-promoting workspaces that attempt to negate any potential deleterious health effects from working in underground workspaces. Korean Society of Epidemiology 2019-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6815877/ /pubmed/31623427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2019025 Text en ©2019, Korean Society of Epidemiology This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Cohort Profile Dunleavy, Gerard Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu Nazeha, Nuraini Soljak, Michael Visvalingam, Nanthini Bajpai, Ram Yap, Hui Shan Roberts, Adam C. Thach, Thuan Quoc Tonon, André Comiran Soh, Chee Kiong Christopoulos, Georgios Cheung, Kei Long de Vries, Hein Car, Josip Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title | Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title_full | Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title_fullStr | Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title_full_unstemmed | Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title_short | Health Effects of Underground Workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
title_sort | health effects of underground workspaces cohort: study design and baseline characteristics |
topic | Cohort Profile |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31623427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2019025 |
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