Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Outdoor air pollution has become major health concern in every country, especially in urban areas. This study aimed to determine the air quality and its association with health risk among population in Klang Valley. METHODS: Outdoor air quality was obtained by secondary data provided by Department of Environment Malaysia (DOE). Cross-sectional study was conducted in October 2018 and health risk was assessed using Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D). RESULTS: API data obtained from April 2017 until March 2018 showed that only 3.8% of the weeks having moderate air quality, which ranged 51-100, the remaining weeks were at healthy level. 266 participants were being recruited in this study with a mean (SD) age 32.5 (9.75), 26.3% were males and 73.7% females. HIT-6 scoring and sleep efficiency difficulty were found to be significantly associated (p<0.05) with industrial area along the journal to workplace, majority of participant who doesnt travel through industrial area reported to have little to no impact of headache on life (50%) and no problem in falling asleep in night (41%). Three factors were found to be significantly associated (p<0.05) with disturbance of sleep, namely frequency of wearing mask, mode of transportation and route to workplace. Similarly, depression level also found to be significantly associated (p<0.05) with the factors mentioned above. CONCLUSION: Health risk attributed by air pollution can be reduced by modifying the frequency of wearing mask, mode of transportation and route to workplace.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-59,
title = {Health Risk Attributed by Air Pollution in Klang Valley},
author = {Safuraa Ab Latif and Eugenie Tan Sin Sing and Tan Chung Keat},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Outdoor air pollution has become major health concern in every country, especially in urban areas. This study aimed to determine the air quality and its association with health risk among population in Klang Valley. METHODS: Outdoor air quality was obtained by secondary data provided by Department of Environment Malaysia (DOE). Cross-sectional study was conducted in October 2018 and health risk was assessed using Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D). RESULTS: API data obtained from April 2017 until March 2018 showed that only 3.8% of the weeks having moderate air quality, which ranged 51-100, the remaining weeks were at healthy level. 266 participants were being recruited in this study with a mean (SD) age 32.5 (9.75), 26.3% were males and 73.7% females. HIT-6 scoring and sleep efficiency difficulty were found to be significantly associated (p\<0.05) with industrial area along the journal to workplace, majority of participant who doesnt travel through industrial area reported to have little to no impact of headache on life (50%) and no problem in falling asleep in night (41%). Three factors were found to be significantly associated (p\<0.05) with disturbance of sleep, namely frequency of wearing mask, mode of transportation and route to workplace. Similarly, depression level also found to be significantly associated (p\<0.05) with the factors mentioned above. CONCLUSION: Health risk attributed by air pollution can be reduced by modifying the frequency of wearing mask, mode of transportation and route to workplace.},
note = {Type: ORAL PRESENTATION; Organisation: School of Healthy Aging, Medical Aesthetics and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia},
keywords = {air quality, Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D), Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6), klang valley, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}