Abstract
Respite place in healthcare facility has been introduced and promoted in USGBC LEED to reduce stress and fatigue for caregivers, patients, and their families. Studies showed that people stay in natural environment can experience a sense of wellbeing and also suggested gentle stream water sound is highly associated with “relax” listening impression. Thus, as gentle stream is one of the familiar nature elements and is often used as a landscape architecture element for relaxation along with greens in respite place, the objective of this study was to learn the effect of the relaxation state with gentle stream water sound by studying the alpha brainwave response and physiological responses such as heart rate and blood pressure of 20 participants. During the evaluation, stress inducing period and relaxation period were conducted. Two-sample t-test was used to find out if there were any significant changes in participants’ brainwave and physiological responses. The results showed that based on alpha brainwave, more female participants experienced relaxation state than males. After listening to the water sound, the systolic blood pressure showed the most obvious changes, and heart rate is slower.
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