Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality of Hostel Rooms and its Effects on Students’ Wellbeing in Selected Universities in Oyo State, Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorDavid Olaolu OGUNTUNDE
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-11T08:45:51Z
dc.date.available2025-11-11T08:45:51Z
dc.date.issued2025-12
dc.description.abstractAcceptable Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is needed for occupants’ quality sleep, health, comfort and wellbeing. This study examined hostel rooms’ Indoor Environmental Quality and its effects on students’ wellbeing in selected universities in Oyo State, Nigeria. It specifically investigated the orientation of the hostel building with physical dimensions of the hostel rooms and examined the adequacies of IEQ components. It further investigated the students’ satisfaction with the IEQ conditions and established the impacts of IEQ conditions on students’ wellbeing. Data was collected through both primary and secondary sources including physical measurements of hostel rooms’ layout and questionnaires. A Two-stage sampling technique was used to select the students as study population. 1410 questionnaires were randomly distributed based on Probability Proportional to Size while 1372 (97.3% of the sample size) questionnaires were retrieved and analyzed. The data obtained from both objective and subjective measurements were quantitatively subjected to descriptive, explorative and inferential statistics in frequencies, percentages and cross-tabulations in tables and regression analysis using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 23.0). It was found that all hostel halls exhibit diverse characteristics such as building orientation, geometry/form; number of floor; number of loading; headroom etc and greatly influenced IEQ conditions in the hostels, thereby, enhancing students’ satisfaction and wellbeing. Also, the IEQ components of thermal comfort, IAQ, acoustic and lighting were inadequate, unsatisfactory and uncomfortable in most of the hostel spaces due to inadequate percentages of window/wall and window/floor area ratios, though; indoor ventilation was assessed and found to be adequate in the hostel rooms. The result further revealed unsatisfactory thermal conditions, unhealthy indoor air quality and high level of noise disturbance thus, affecting students’ wellbeing, though, artificial lighting was adequate and satisfactory. Findings further revealed that the students’ wellbeing is strongly affected by unhealthy IEQ as reflected by the students’ sleeping inefficiency, demotivation to wake up early and ill- health status. It was found that, headache, fatigue, cold hands and feet etc are the prevalent health symptoms in the hostel rooms. Therefore, a strong significant relationship (p<0.05) exists between students’ wellbeing and IEQ component of thermal, IAQ, acoustic and visual comforts in the hostel rooms establishing IAQ as the most ranked IEQ component contributed to students’ wellbeing. The study therefore contributed to the sustainable development and healthy indoor ambiences, aligning with the SDGs 3, 4, 7, 9 and 11 thus, enhancing students’ wellbeing. The study recommends that adequate attention must be paid to the inclusion and handling of the IEQ components at the hostels design conceptualization and implementation stages to enhance occupants’ sleep quality and health to promote students’ wellbeing. Keywords: Hostel Rooms, Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), Selected Universities, Students’ wellbeing. Word Count: 427
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dc.identifier.otherP.hD
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.lcu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1215
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLead City University, Ibadan
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dc.subjectHostel Rooms
dc.subjectIndoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
dc.subjectSelected Universities
dc.subjectStudents’ wellbeing.
dc.titleEvaluation of Indoor Environmental Quality of Hostel Rooms and its Effects on Students’ Wellbeing in Selected Universities in Oyo State, Nigeria
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