Creating Optimal Healing Environments

Zborowsky, Terri; Kreitzer, Mary Jo

doi:10.1093/med/9780190851040.003.0025

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“…Acuity adaptable rooms cultivate relationships between caregivers and patients by providing stable staffing during an entire stay. Patients, family members and staff become comfortable with each other (Zborowsky & Kreitzer, ). Participants in this study noted that the acuity adaptable rooms resulted in the staff spending more time in the room engaging with the patient.…”

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Patient and family description of receiving care in acuity adaptable care model

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Patient and family description of receiving care in acuity adaptable care model

2018

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“…An optimal healing environment (OHE) as highlighted by Kreitzer and Zborowsky (2014), should be designed considering the deep and dynamic interplay of the parameters of disabled people, the healing process, culture as well as the place to achieve maximum positive outcome for the patients. The place element focuses on the physical space where care is provided (health care facilities, half way homes, hospitals ...etc) and the context that surrounds the patient, family and caregivers.…”

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“…Table 1 -Elements of place: Design parameters which impact the process of facilitating OHE (Source: Zborowsky and Kreitzer -2014) Out of the array of design elements discussed under OHE for disabled, the current investigation mainly focuses on the impact of colour to induce therapeutic/healing effects on physically disabled patients. Colours define the human visual perception of the natural and man-made world and plays a critical role in how the spaces are being perceived by the individuals and how the responses, reactions or behaviours are triggered based on the thoughts, emotions and psychological reactions that stem due to presence of diverse colours in the place component.…”

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Impact of Colour on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Levels of Physically Disabled Patients in Health Care Facilities

Hettiarachchi¹,

Perera²

2021

14th International Research Conference - FARU 2021

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Physically disabled community in Sri Lanka is not receiving sufficient attention with reference to the conduciveness of their living environments. The patients who are harrowed with mobility impairments should be supported to overcome challenges which hinder the smooth functioning of day today physical activities while maintaining their psychological health by incorporating disabled-friendly, optimum healing design interventions. In view of this, an attempt was made to determine the impact of interior colours to reduce depression, anxiety and stress levels of disabled individuals. The investigation was executed with reference to wall colour of patient’s (n=15) bedrooms of a selected rehabilitation centre, at Ragama. The impact of three selected hues (blue, yellow and green) were tested by installing colour panels on the sidewall of the beds, allowing the participants to be exposed to each colour for three consecutive days. Depression, anxiety and stress levels of participants were measured using DASS-21. Impact of green colour was found to be more favourable to reduce depression, anxiety and stress levels of participants over blue and yellow. It is recommended to extend this study further to test different hues, shades and intensities of green colour with long-term exposure, to enhance psychological health and well-being of disabled patients in health care facilities.

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“…Thus, healing environments are designed to promote harmony of mind, body, and spirit. 30 In this thesis, it is imperative not to confuse a healing space with a hospital. Healing spaces can be found in several different environments and represented in different ways.…”

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Exploring Sensory Design in Therapeutic Architecture

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Exploring Sensory DesignThis thesis aims to explore how architecture optimize the healing process through the senses, making it imperative that vision only reinforce the other senses.With only sight, people become detached from a relationship with the environment through the suppression of the other senses. However by taking advantage of the other senses, is it possible to create a design for the body as opposed to it being visually and conceptually dominated? This will be applied in a clinical setting,to create a therapeutic environment. Following the concept that a healing space can be space which is not just experienced visually but through all the senses. i Contents Exploring Sensory Design Abstract i Exploring Sensory Design Architecture and its Potential to Heal AN INTRODUCTION TO SENSORY DESIGN We experience our everyday lives without realizing how heavily we rely on our senses. So much of our consciousness is through our senses, and how we perceive our world is based on this. In the case where someone was born without senses, would they experience memories and emotions in the same way we do? we obtain information, and experiences from the world around us. Without our senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell, life would be tasteless, odourless, communication between our bodies and our world. Simply put, without our senses, our world would not exist for us. In 450 B.C, the Greek philosopher Protagoras noted this when he stated " Man is nothing but a bundle of sensations." Your world senses were taken into account as critical design factors. What if sound, touch, taste and smell were as equally emphasized as sight? What would our built environment look, smell and feel like, and how would that effect us? ing our attitudes, behaviours and wellbeing. It is an approach which focuses on the occupant, and how the composition of sensory stimuli in built environments are arranged to lift the quality of life and experience for occupants. With this approach, the effect of architecture on occupants can be better attuned through sensory design for healthier mind and body. Exploring Sensory Design Architecture and its Potential to HealSensory data is rarely central to design decisions, and as opposed to formal design concepts, designing for the senses seems like an unreliable design parameter in the architectural community. 2 In the book Body, Memory and Architecture, Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore, state that "architecture is a highly specialized system with a set of prescribed goals rather than a sensual social art responsive to real human desires and feelings." 3 There is an emphasis on the formal aesthetic of architecture, and it is favoured at the expense of the sensory and experiential concepts. Many believe that the primary purpose of a building is to keep the distraction from the task at hand therefore, most often all the senses aren't taken in to account in design. The senses, hearing, touching, taste and smell require closer contact and actual physical engagement, and what seems to happen is that most ...

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Creating Optimal Healing Environments

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Patient and family description of receiving care in acuity adaptable care model

Patient and family description of receiving care in acuity adaptable care model

Impact of Colour on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Levels of Physically Disabled Patients in Health Care Facilities

Exploring Sensory Design in Therapeutic Architecture

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