Perceptions on thermal comfort in general wards for Malaysian hospitals
Environmental Quality Perception (EQP) is constructed to help in environmental studies and as an assessment tool for the environment and behaviour field studies. Using EQP assessment method in the hospital environment studies helps to understand the relationship between people and the hospital en...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UKM
2015
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9119/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9119/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9119/1/133-456-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | Environmental Quality Perception (EQP) is constructed to help in environmental studies and as an
assessment tool for the environment and behaviour field studies. Using EQP assessment method in
the hospital environment studies helps to understand the relationship between people and the
hospital environment. Achieving sufficient thermal comfort level in existing government hospital
buildings were seriously considered especially in general wards where patients and staffs most spend
time in. The assessments were completed by 120 respondents (i.e. patients and staff nurse) from five
different general wards located in different blocks in a Malaysian public hospital. To assess perception
validity, one is focusing on objective physical observation evaluating the hospital environment
correlated with subjective evaluation through questionnaire on social environment. The main objective
of this research is to investigate the users’ perceptions of existing thermal comfort quality in the
different department’s general wards of existing government hospitals in providing comparative table
showing the different performance of thermal comfort. Overall reliability on thermal satisfaction by the
occupants shows significant differences in all identified variables that were influenced by location and
characteristic of the buildings as well as the respondents demographic. Mixed method analyses were
used whereby data responds were analysed by multivariate (MANOVA) and univariate (ANOVA)
analyses of variance for quantitative and triangulation analyses were tabled down for qualitative
between average responses of thermal comfort perceived with the hospital physical. The findings
concluded with majority perceived moderation on most thermal comfort elements indicates that there
were growing acceptance and tolerance with the space that are subjected to duration of admitted and
hours of working. Therefore, further investigation should be carried out to enhance the probability in
perceptions with multiple hospitals for clear comparisons. |
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