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Sleep in a Gymnasium: A Study to Examine the Psychophysiological and Environmental Conditions in Shelter-Analogue Settings

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  • Koh Mizuno

    (Faculty of Education, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai 981-8522, Japan)

  • Kazue Okamoto-Mizuno

    (Kansei Fukushi Research Center, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai 989-3201, Japan)

  • Motoko Tanabe

    (Faculty of Health Sciences, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai 989-3201, Japan)

  • Katsuko Niwano

    (Faculty of Education, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai 981-8522, Japan)

Abstract

We aimed to examine sleep in shelter-analogue settings to determine the sleep and environmental conditions in evacuation shelters. A summer social/educational event was conducted in an elementary school, wherein children and their parents ( n = 109) spent one night in the school gymnasium; a total of 15 children and 7 adults completed the study. Data were recording using wrist actigraphy and questionnaires, from two days before the event to two days after the event. During the night in the gymnasium, sleep initiation in the children was found to be significantly delayed, whereas adults did not show any significant change in actigraphic sleep parameters. Although 57% of adults complained of stiffness of the floor, only 7% of children had the same complaint. The nocturnal noise recorded at four locations in the gymnasium showed that the percentage of 1-min data epochs with a noise level >40 dB ranged from 53% to 74% during lights-out. The number of subjects that woke up during the night showed a similar pattern with the changes in the noise level. The changes in sleep might represent event-specific responses, such as to a noisy environment, and the different complaints between adults and children could be useful in shelter management.

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  • Koh Mizuno & Kazue Okamoto-Mizuno & Motoko Tanabe & Katsuko Niwano, 2016. "Sleep in a Gymnasium: A Study to Examine the Psychophysiological and Environmental Conditions in Shelter-Analogue Settings," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-13, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:13:y:2016:i:12:p:1186-:d:84125
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    1. Koh Mizuno & Kazue Okamoto-Mizuno, 2014. "Actigraphically evaluated sleep on the days surrounding the Great East Japan Earthquake," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 72(2), pages 969-981, June.
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    1. Hitomi Ogata & Momoko Kayaba & Miki Kaneko & Keiko Ogawa & Ken Kiyono, 2020. "Evaluation of Sleep Quality in a Disaster Evacuee Environment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-12, June.

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