Supportive Treatment Environment (STE); A solution for post-treatment damage control in the therapeutic space (decreasing the recovery time of patients)

Subject Areas : City architect

Zahra Asadi ¹ , azadeh shahcheraghi ² , leila zare ³ , minou gharehbagluo ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Architecture and Art, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran,
2 - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
3 - گروه معماری دانشکده هنر و معماری دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران غرب
4 - tabriz islamic art university

Received: 2024-05-07 Accepted : 2024-05-25 Published : 2024-06-20

Keywords: Environmental Indicators Improvement, Supportive Therapist Environment, Patient-centered Design, Patients' Stress, Environmental Psychology.,

Abstract :

Objective:This study investigates the environmental factors affecting the treatment process, increasing the recovery quality, and facilitating the patients’ return to the normal life cycle.Background:The intensification of environmental stresses makes the hospital’s environment stressful and non-supportive. Designing a Supportive Therapist Environment (STE) could facilitate the recovery process and improve the patients’ life quality during treatment procedures in inpatient wards. Method: To this goal an exploratory approach was used.The qualitative data were collected by unstructured interviewing six medical specialists and six architecture professors. A questionnaire was distributed among 156 patients to examine the relationship between environmental factors and the possible effect of treatment quality in a surgical ward, Tabriz hospital, Iran.The conditional logistic regression was used to estimate this association. Results: Findings showed a significant relationship between the environmental components and the treatment process quality. That is, the results confirmed positive effects of the architectural interventions on the patients’ sense of calmness, security, and return to life.Conclusion:This study emphasizes on all dimensions including physical, social and semantic, particularly the ceiling as a main factor in controlling stress and maintaining the calmness.STE model can enhance patient satisfaction, and help hospitals create suitable conditions for patients in inpatient wards. To improve the treatment quality, it is necessary to consider mental, semantic, social, and physical components in designing the hospital environments. The study discusses the concepts for understanding the influence of the built environment on human experience, delirium control, treatment process, recovery quality, and return to life cycle.It also introduces further directions for future research.

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