Measuring the Effectiveness of Biophilic Architecture Components on Promoting Patients' Health Characteristics in the Treatment Environment (Case Study: in Mashhad)

Subject Areas : Health Management Services

seyede maryam  moosavi ¹ (PhD student, Department of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran)
Reza  Mirzaei ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran)
ahmad  heydari ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Architecture , Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran)
seyede negar  asaadi ⁴ (Associate Professor, Department of Social determinant of health research center, University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran)

Received: 2021-06-12 Accepted : 2021-10-06 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Biophilic design, human-environment interaction, therapeutic environment, Environmental quality, health characteristics,

Abstract :

Introduction:  The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of biophilic design in therapeutic environments in order to improve patients' health characteristics. It may be necessary to rely on biophilic architecture in terms of human-environment interaction to increase environmental quality and psychological impact on patients. Methods: In this study, three main dimensions of biophilic design with its components were assessed in the form of a questionnaire. Participants in this survey included three groups: architects, patients and medical staff, which was conducted in some hospitals in Mashhad. The collected data were analyzed by appropriate statistical methods by SPSS software, t-test and ANOVA test. The aim of this study was to compare the effective factors of biophilic design on the promotion of health characteristics in the therapeutic environment. Result: According to the data and tests performed in all three groups, the rate of direct experience of nature was the highest score of 68%, followed by indirect experience of nature with an impact of 28% and the nature of place and space with an impact of 19%. Demonstrates the high effectiveness of the direct experience of nature commonly shared among groups despite differences. Conclusion: The analytical results of this study indicate that the existence of nature in the human environment has a greater impact and shows the positive relationship between the patient and nature and the improvement of the biological quality of the treatment environment. Therefore, designing a biophilic treatment environment can lead to improved patient health characteristics.

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