20.500.12556/RUL-132767 Association between sick building syndrome and indoor environmental quality in Slovenian hospitals a cross-sectional study Increased exposure times to various health risk factors and the vulnerability of building users might result in significantly higher prevalence rates of sick building syndrome (SBS) in a hospital setting compared to other indoor environments. The purpose of our study was to assess the association between SBS symptoms and measured environmental parameters at a Slovenian general hospital. A combination of a self-assessment study and field measurements was conducted in order to estimate the health risk factors for SBS symptoms among the users of a Slovenian general hospital. The Chi-square test was used to analyse the association between observed health and environmental parameters. The response rate was 67.5%. A total of 12.0% of healthcare workers at hospital wards reported at least six SBS symptoms, 19.0% reported 2–3 SBS symptoms. At the observed hospital wards, the most deviations were recorded for the level of lighting (83.3%), noise level (73.6%), and room temperature (55.3%). A statistically significant association was found between indoor environmental quality and skin-related SBS symptoms (χ$^2$ = 0.009; p = 0.006). This information will be of great value in defining an integral strategy of environmental health activities aimed at healthier indoor environmental quality in hospitals. hospital ward health risk factors parameters sick building syndrome integral strategy environmental health activities stavbe bolniški oddelek dejavniki tveganja za zdravje parametri sindrom bolne stavbe celovita strategija dejavnosti okoljskega zdravja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2021-11-02 14:47:24 2021-11-02 14:47:28 2022-09-12 04:13:38 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2019 0 0 18 str. iss. 17, art. 3224 Vol. 16 2019 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 614:699.8(497.4) 1661-7827 10.3390/ijerph16173224 8881505 RAZ_Kalender_Smajlovic_Sedina_2019.pdf RAZ_Kalender_Smajlovic_Sedina_2019.pdf 1 84345850AE9F9DA31AFF946335109DAC 2af764d74efb6efb7edff7640813054c7c64bbaae56a1374c4107e2721c9fa37 c52b30f8-3be3-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=150458 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/17/3224 1 60a855d4-3be3-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=150457 Medicinska fakulteta Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo 0 0 0