A tool for analysing the interdependence of indoor environmental quality and reported symptoms of the hospitals’ personnel

G. Loupa, S. Fotopoulou and Konstantinos Tsagarakis

Journal of Risk Research, 2017, vol. 20, issue 5, 678-691

Abstract: The working environment and the working conditions can influence the well-being of hospital employees and consequently their performance at work. The present questionnaire-based study (737 valid questionnaires) developed and evaluated a quantitative structural equation model (SEM) that examines the interdependence between the indoor environmental quality (IEQ), the working conditions, the atopic constituents and the reported health complains of employees in three Greek hospitals. The results of the SEM reveal that IEQ could partially explain the employees’ symptoms in the hospitals. The working conditions proved to be a key factor in the relationship between IEQ and symptoms. Multi-group analysis has shown that this interdependence is affected by the building characteristics, by the gender, the smoking habits and the specialty of each participant, but not by their age.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2015.1119182

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