Evaluation and Measurement of Lighting Intensity in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2020

Lighting, as an effective physical parameter, has a significant impact on the performance of employees. Lighting of faculty, a place where students, officers, and teachers stay a long time, has the most importance. The lighting illumination, hence, should be standard to make them less tired. This study, in this vein, aimed the evaluation and measurement of lighting intensity in the school of nursing and midwifery, Saveh University of medical sciences in 2020.

This study, as a cross-sectional study, was carried out over one month in classrooms, official rooms, teacher’s rest rooms, laboratories, staircases, and studying halls.  IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America) guideline used to measure the illumination intensity. After that, the collected data is managed by SPSS 21 and then presented by using suitable descriptive indices.

Based on our results, the illumination intensity for 57% of classrooms and all other places were in accordance with an acceptable range.

As the obtained results show, inappropriate lighting was only for classrooms which needs to be corrected by a suitable intervention. Generally, inappropriate lighting and using excessive un-natural light may result in visual tiredness during daily work.