Relationship between Indoor Thermal Conditions, Sleep Quality, Health and Performance in a WarmHumid University’s Students Hostel.

Thermal comfort in students’ hall of residence goes beyond satisfaction and comfort; it involves guiding against complaints, illness, and low performance. Students spend a lot of their time daily in the school hostel. It is therefore essential to assess the indoor thermal comfort of this kind of setting to put forward suggestions for improvement. This research work is an extension of a larger research work investigating the assessment of indoor thermal conditions in First Technical University students’ hostels and therefore sets to analyze the relationship between indoor thermal environment, sleep quality, health and academic performance in students’ hostel based on subjective questionnaires. Adopting Yaro Yamane’s sample size calculation formula, questionnaires were administered to 250-sample size got from
560 sampling frame. However, 158 questionnaires were retrieved and obtained data were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-21version). The study revealed that despite the unsatisfactory conditions in the hostels, the thermal conditions of the hostel rooms have little or less effects on the  quality, health & academic performance of the students. Consequently, the Pearson correlation result presents a strong relationship between indoor thermal condition and students’ sleep quality, health & learning performance. Thus, students’ hostels should be planned and designed to provide a satisfactory sleep environment and enhancing improved health & academic performance for the students in their dwellings. It is therefore recommended that further
studies should investigate on the effects of indoor thermal condition on students’ academic performance.