Visitor’s Experiences of an Evidence-Based Designed Healthcare Environment in an Intensive Care Unit
(2020) In Health Environments Research & Design Journal p.1-14- Abstract
- The healthcare environment may seem frightening and overwhelming in times when life-threatening conditions affect a family member or close friend and individuals visit the patient in an ICU. A two-bed patient room was refurbished to enhance the well-being of patients and their families according to the principles of evidence-based design (EBD). No prior research has used the Person-centred Climate Questionnaire—Family version (PCQ-F) or the semantic environment description (SMB) in the ICU setting.
Methods:
A sample of 99 visitors to critically ill patients admitted to a multidisciplinary ICU completed a questionnaire; 69 visited one of the two control rooms, while 30 visited the intervention room.
Results:
For the... (More) - The healthcare environment may seem frightening and overwhelming in times when life-threatening conditions affect a family member or close friend and individuals visit the patient in an ICU. A two-bed patient room was refurbished to enhance the well-being of patients and their families according to the principles of evidence-based design (EBD). No prior research has used the Person-centred Climate Questionnaire—Family version (PCQ-F) or the semantic environment description (SMB) in the ICU setting.
Methods:
A sample of 99 visitors to critically ill patients admitted to a multidisciplinary ICU completed a questionnaire; 69 visited one of the two control rooms, while 30 visited the intervention room.
Results:
For the dimension of everydayness in the PCQ-F, a significantly better experience was expressed for the intervention room (p < .030); the dimension regarding the ward climate general was also perceived as higher in the intervention room (p < .004). The factors of pleasantness (p < .019), and complexity (p < 0.049), showed significant differences favoring the intervention room in the SMB, with borderline significance on the modern factor (p < .061).
Conclusion:
Designing and implementing an enriched healthcare environment in the ICU setting increases person-centered care in relation to the patients’ visitors. This could lead to better outcomes for the visitors, for example, decreasing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, but this needs further investigations. (Less)
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- Sundberg, Fredrika ; Fridh, Isabell ; Lindahl, Berit LU and Kåreholt, Ingemar
- publishing date
- 2020
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- family-centered care, intensive care unit (ICU), interior design, access to nature, design research, evidence-based design (EBD), nursing research, patient-/person-centered care, patient room design
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- Health Environments Research & Design Journal
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- 1 - 14
- publisher
- Center for Health Design
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- pmid:32734781
- scopus:85088835842
- ISSN
- 2167-5112
- DOI
- 10.1177/1937586720943471
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- English
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- f4ac18cc-da2b-43b5-a862-46d464d7301e
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