ArticleIndoor air2020
Wellbuilt for wellbeing: Controlling relative humidity in the workplace matters for our health.
Article in Indoor air, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Applicability of Physiological Monitoring Systems within Occupational Groups: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
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- New considerations for representing moisture in indoor thermal conditions: Associations between enthalpy, cognitive performance, and thermal sensations.Indoor environments · 2025Article
- Water sensitivity of heteroepitaxial Cu-MOF films: dissolution and re-crystallization of 3D-oriented MOF superstructures.Chemical science · 2023Article
- Assessing the indoor air quality and their predictor variable in 21 home offices during the Covid-19 pandemic in Norway.Building and environment · 2022Article
- Associations between indoor relative humidity and global COVID-19 outcomes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Modeling the impact of indoor relative humidity on the infection risk of five respiratory airborne viruses.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Wellbuilt for wellbeing: Controlling relative humidity in the workplace matters for our health.Indoor air · 2020Article
- Integrative medicine considerations for convalescence from mild-to-moderate COVID-19 disease.Explore (New York, N.Y.)Review
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Abstract
This study offers a new perspective on the role of relative humidity in strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of office workers. A lack of studies of sufficient participant size and diversity relating relative humidity (RH) to measured health outcomes has been a driving factor in relaxing thermal comfort standards for RH and removing a lower limit for dry air. We examined the association between RH and objectively measured stress responses, physical activity (PA), and sleep quality. A diverse group of office workers (n = 134) from four well-functioning federal buildings wore chest-mounted heart rate variability monitors for three consecutive days, while at the same time, RH and temperature (T) were measured in their workplaces. Those who spent the majority of their time at the office in conditions of 30%-60% RH experienced 25% less stress at the office than those who spent the majority of their time in drier conditions. Further, a correlational study of our stress response suggests optimal values for RH may exist within an even narrower range around 45%. Finally, we found an indirect effect of objectively measured poorer sleep quality, mediated by stress responses, for those outside this range.
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