Jeon Byoung-Hak, Park Young Joon
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
Environ Health Toxicol. 2012;27:e2012002. doi: 10.5620/eht.2012.27.e2012002. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
This study is a cross-sectional study to investigate the frequency of humidifier and humidifier disinfectant usage in the general population.
A questionnaire was applied to 94 subjects (46 male, 48 female) from the general population of Gyeonggi Province. The questionnaire consisted of 3 scales (general characteristics, 5 items about humidifier usage, 5 items about humidifier disinfectant usage).
Thirty-five (37.2%) of the 94 subjects use a humidifier and humidifier disinfectant usage was found to be 18.1%. The frequency of humidifier usage is 4.8 times per a week and the humidifier disinfectant usage is 2.4 times per a week. Humidifier usage rate was highest in January. and then tended to rise gradually from October.
Although this study population was not representative, we can say that approximately 50 percent of the humidifier users use a humidifier disinfectant and the trend of using a humidifier has shown seasonality.
本研究为横断面研究，旨在调查普通人群中加湿器及加湿器消毒剂的使用频率。
对来自京畿道普通人群的94名受试者（46名男性，48名女性）进行问卷调查。问卷包括3个量表（一般特征、关于加湿器使用的5个项目、关于加湿器消毒剂使用的5个项目）。
94名受试者中有35名（37.2%）使用加湿器，加湿器消毒剂的使用率为18.1%。加湿器的使用频率为每周4.8次，加湿器消毒剂的使用频率为每周2.4次。加湿器使用率在1月份最高，然后从10月份开始逐渐上升。
尽管本研究人群不具有代表性，但我们可以说，大约50%的加湿器使用者会使用加湿器消毒剂，且使用加湿器的趋势呈现出季节性。
