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. 2022 Feb 25:41:107996.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107996. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Dataset on thermal comfort, perceived stress, and anxiety in university students under confinement due to COVID-19 in a hot and humid region of Mexico

C Ramírez-Dolores  1 , L A Lugo-Ramírez  2   3 , B A Hernández-Cortaza  3 , G Alcalá  4 , J Lara-Valdés  5 , J Andaverde  6
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Dataset on thermal comfort, perceived stress, and anxiety in university students under confinement due to COVID-19 in a hot and humid region of Mexico

C Ramírez-Dolores et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

This dataset was compiled to estimate the levels of thermal comfort and mental health in a sample group of university students confined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By the time research was carried out, these students of a hot and humid region of Mexico, had already spent 200 days on distance learning using online platforms. A total of 324 records were documented with a final sample of 316 valid participants. The total records were collected directly from the students through a web platform (Microsoft forms). This data set can be used to generate correlations between mental health, thermal comfort, and individual characteristics in the study population that will allow to identify the influence of the built environment and local climate on the levels of stress and anxiety that university students experienced under confinement. It can also be used to issue recommendations to improve the quality of built spaces and for the construction of adaptive models of thermal comfort considering mental health as a study variable.

Keywords: Anxiety; COVID-19; Humidity sensation; Stress perceived; Thermal sensation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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