TITLE:
Knowledge of, Attitudes toward, and Practices regarding Indoor Pollution at Kuwait University
AUTHORS:
Nedaa A. Al-Khamees
KEYWORDS:
Indoor Air Pollution, University, Kuwait, Perception, Attitude, Practice
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.6 No.12,
December
27,
2018
ABSTRACT: Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of indoor air pollution,
there have been few attempts to delineate the knowledge of and attitudes towards
indoor air pollution, as well as the use of said knowledge and the effect
of the attitudes on practice. This study sought to measure these attributes in a
representative sample of students and teachers at Kuwait University using a
self-administered questionnaire. Overall, the mean values for knowledge and
attitudes were 7.88/19 and 3.89/5 respectively, indicating low knowledge and
sub-optimal attitudes. The mean value for polluting practices was rather high
at 1.05/2. Disappointingly, these results are very similar to those obtained in
the previous surveys. Newspapers and magazines (65.8%) were the main
source of information, followed by radio and television (62.4%). Teachers
were significantly (p p p p p p p −0.067, p