Elsharkawy Mahmoud Fathy, Aljassim Mohammed Tawfiq, Alsaif Abdulmalik Salman, Alsulaiman Sana Abdullah
Department of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Auxiliary Agency for Preventive Health, Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
F1000Res. 2024 May 30;11:1125. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.110775.1. eCollection 2022.
A proper and adequate school environment is important for an effective learning process and maintaining the health of the students as they spend most of their time in schools. The physical school environment includes the physical structures; presence of chemicals and biological agents; and the surrounding environment, including air, water, and materials.This study aimed to evaluate the indoor air quality (IAQ) in governmental girls' schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Seventeen girls' schools were randomly selected in the Eastern Province of KSA. The indoor levels of PM and PM , volatile organic compounds, CO, NO , and CO were measured at different sites inside each school during four months of the year 2020.
Levels of the six air pollutants were higher inside schools adjacent to roads with moderate traffic activity than schools with low and very low traffic activity. However, the mean level of CO inside the selected schools was higher than its outdoor level, suggesting the predominance of an indoor source of CO . The levels of all measured air pollutants inside governmentally constructed school buildings were higher than those inside the rental type.
The average levels of air pollutants inside the selected schools were much lower than their air quality guidelines (AQGs), while some CO and NO levels exceeded their AQGs at some schools.
一个合适且充足的学校环境对于有效的学习过程以及保持学生的健康非常重要，因为他们大部分时间都在学校度过。学校的物理环境包括物理结构、化学和生物制剂的存在以及周围环境，包括空气、水和材料。本研究旨在评估沙特阿拉伯王国（KSA）政府女子学校的室内空气质量（IAQ）。
在沙特阿拉伯王国东部省份随机选择了17所女子学校。在2020年的四个月里，在每所学校内的不同地点测量了PM 和PM 、挥发性有机化合物、CO、NO 和CO 的室内水平。
与交通活动适度的道路相邻的学校内六种空气污染物的水平高于交通活动低和非常低的学校。然而，所选学校内CO 的平均水平高于其室外水平，这表明室内存在CO 的主要来源。政府建造的学校建筑内所有测量的空气污染物水平高于租赁类型建筑内的水平。
所选学校内空气污染物的平均水平远低于其空气质量指南（AQG），而一些学校的CO 和NO 水平超过了其AQG。
