Preferences for Indoor Environmental and Social Comfort of Outpatient Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic, an Explanatory Study
| Autor: | Marco A. Ortiz, Philomena M. Bluyssen, AnneMarie Eijkelenboom |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Semi-structured interview
Design Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology education 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Semi-structured interviews 01 natural sciences Article Indoor air quality Perception Outpatients 021105 building & construction Pandemic Humans outpatient areas Pandemics Environmental quality preferences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 IEQ multisensory Content analysis Health Air Pollution Indoor Medicine sense organs Hospital staff Psychology hospitals Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 7353, p 7353 (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 14 |
| ISSN: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | While the pressure on hospital workers keeps growing, they are generally more dissatisfied with their comfort than other occupants in hospitals or offices. To better understand the comfort of outpatient workers in hospitals, clusters for preferences and perceptions of the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and social comfort were identified in a previous study before the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This qualitative study explains the outpatient workers’ main preferences for comfort during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews and photo-elicitation were used. Contextual changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic were included. The questions in the interviews were based on the characteristics of the profiles, corresponding with the clusters. The data were analyzed with content analysis according to the steps defined by Gioia. Seventeen outpatient workers who had been part of the previous study participated. For some outpatient workers differentiation of preferences was illogical due to interrelations and equal importance of the comfort aspects. The main changes in perceptions of comfort due to the pandemic were worries about the indoor air quality and impoverished interaction. Because the occupants’ preferences for comfort can change over time, it was suggested that further development of occupant profiles needs to accommodate changes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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