2017
No
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28267226/
Ung-Lanki, S
Europe
Modeling
Other
Elementary (K-5)
Respiratory symptoms
Vision
Headaches
Stress/Anxiety
Indoor environment
Primary schools
Principal component analysis
Questionnaire
Symptom score
Symptoms
based on prevalence of symptoms, their test-retest repeatability (ICC), and on principal component analysis (PCA), the number of symptoms was reduced to 17 and six symptoms scores were developed. Six variants of these six symptom scores were then formed and their ability to rank schools compared. Four symptom scores (respiratory, lower respiratory, eye, and general symptoms) analyzed dichotomized maintained sufficiently well the diversity of symptom data and captured the between-school differences in symptom prevalence, when compared to more complex and numerous scores