Open AccessHow do occupants rate bedroom air quality?
Author(s) -
Chenxi Liao,
Xiaojun Fan,
Mariya Petrova Bivolarova,
Chandra Sekhar,
Mizuho Akimoto,
Jelle Laverge,
Paweł Wargocki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012242
Subject(s) - bedroom , sleep quality , air quality index , quality (philosophy) , morning , indoor air quality , environmental health , medicine , meteorology , engineering , geography , civil engineering , philosophy , cognition , epistemology , psychiatry
Poor air quality has been shown to reduce sleep quality. There is a limited number of studies reporting how occupants rate the air quality in their bedrooms. The present study sheds the light on this issue. It was conducted in actual bedrooms and asked occupants to rate air quality once awake in the morning using an online sleep diary. The study was done in Denmark during the heating season. 178 responses from 82 subjects were received. Nearly all respondents rated air quality as acceptable. 28% indicated that the air was stuffy. Measuring CO 2 and description of bedrooms would help to explain these results. They are analysed at the moment and will be reported in the subsequent papers.