Impacts of Eco-Friendly Environmental Designs on Health and Well-Being of Patients in Hospitals

Abstract

Homeopathic settings like hospital reception hall can increase a patient’s nervousness level as well as mental and physical reactions to their present state. This study is aimed at evaluating the use of environmental design, precisely the design that integrates fundamentals of the natural environment, in hospitals to reduce nervousness, hypertension and heartbeat rates of waiting patients. Depictions of landscape and the natural environment are known to restore feasible bonds between man and his environment, consequently, the influences of environmental design on patient’s reactions are rated and examined. In a bid to examine these assumptions about 145 persons were sampled. They were later classified into control and experiment clusters of males and females. The designed environment was subjected to experimental fields such as natural elements, green plants, sounds of waterfalls and birds. Both control and experimental fields were tested before and after the experiment. The results indicated that a designed hospital’s reception hall room immensely influences the decreased rate of patient nervousness (p< 0.001), hypertension (p< 0.001) and heartbeat rate (0.001). We propose that using an environmental design for homeopathic treatment centers can decrease the level of nervousness in patients and can lead to a patient’s recovery. Keywords: Architectural Design, Environmental Design, Nervousness, Hypertension, Heartbeat Rate, Stress