Akbar AhmadiAsoor; yaser Tabaraee; Ahmad Allahabadi
Volume 19, Issue 4 , January and February 2013, , Pages 390-394
Abstract
Background: Many diseases are triggered depending on the condition of the building environment. Purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of sick building symptoms in office staff of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences . Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all the office ...
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Background: Many diseases are triggered depending on the condition of the building environment. Purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of sick building symptoms in office staff of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences . Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all the office staff of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences building condition surveyed by using a standard questionnaire for signs of disease. Results: The results showed that during the last year of the 69 people surveyed, about 62.7% at work feeling tired and 27.1% with vertigo and 24.28% felt sleepy, while approximately 95% of people stated that after leaving Work the symptoms disappeared. Average concentration of Carbon monoxide has been 3.4 ppm and sulfur dioxide with an average 0.027 ppm . Conclusion: Note that the measured concentrations of carbon monoxide , sulfur dioxide increasingly been far too low and Prevalence rate of illness among staff in the building haven't been of a high percentage, Therefore it can be concluded that the building was not sick building and prevalence symptoms of sick Building in the headquarters staff of Medical Sciences of Sabzevar is not significant.