Abstract
Due to the rapid development of social economy, general hospital buildings of China are undergoing changes in their models, technology, and medical systems. Changes in the model of hospitals may affect the functional structure, streamline layout, and spatial form of the hospital building. The biological-psychological-social (biopsychosocial) model covers the overall significant factors in healthcare. The model focuses on the hospital public environment. For the advocacy of patient-centered medical concepts, researchers have put forward newer and higher requirements as well. However, there is scarcity of research that targets the psychological impact of general hospital public space environment construction on the patients’ health. Moreover, there is no unanimously recognized standard questionnaire for the public space environment. The purpose of this article is to investigate the needs of inpatients for the space environment, to understand the influencing factors of various space environments, and to explore the law of patient needs. The research intends to provide a theoretical background for the construction of a patient-centered space environment. A dedicated questionnaire was designed to systematically collect the significant features and factors. Using cluster sampling, a total of four medical and surgical wards were investigated. The data obtained from 430 questionnaires were statistically analyzed by SPSS-10.0. Various statistical operations such as descriptive analysis, independent sample t test, one-way analysis of variance, and linear and logistic regressions were performed over the data. The psychological impact was studied from four aspects. The highest score (3-4 points) obtained for the larger number of patients (84.4%) testifies that the public space environment has a significant impact on patients’ mental health. Besides healthcare, outcomes of the paper may be used in various related domains such as psychological well beings, spatial analysis, social interaction, and public space designing.
Highlights
Evaluation of the impact of the hospital indoor public space is important for the well-being of inpatients
All data were fed to SPSS-10.0 for statistical analysis
Descriptive analysis of all requirements was analyzed using the descriptive function. e independent sample t test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze demographic data. e correlation coefficients of related variables were computed, and multiple linear regression analysis and logistic regression analysis were performed. e logistic regression model used is given in the equation as follows: P
Summary
Evaluation of the impact of the hospital indoor public space is important for the well-being of inpatients. Until recently, the designing of hospitals lacks such healthy considerations. E first stage was from the 1950s to the 1970s, when the country’s productivity was relatively backward and the people’s living standards were low. Even in this day and age of technology, proper healthcare facilities and the availability of hospital buildings are the challenges [1] to be overcome. A universal hospital building model is suggested to address this important need [2]. The three-level functional structure of hospitals was replaced by the five-level functional structure leading to the design of a large-scale building complex [3]. The three-level functional structure of hospitals was replaced by the five-level functional structure leading to the design of a large-scale building complex [3]. e third stage
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