A study of thermal comfort conditions of patients — thermal sensation of patients for thermal environment in hospital wards

Abstract

Throughout a complete year, continued measurements of temperatures and humidities in our hospital wards for patients with internal diseases were done and simultaneously the questionaire to the patients concerning their general thermal sensations, local feelings of warm and cold, humidity sensations, feeling of air circulation, feeleing of radiation heat, general thermal comfort, their clothing and bedding conditions was issued and their answers, were collected. Their charts were also investigated simultaneously, and the summarized results were as follows. © 1981, The Showa University Society. All rights reserved.