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From Stressful to Mindful: Reactions to a Proposed Emergency Department Design for Enhancing Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Among Healthcare Clinical Staff.
HERD
May 2023
Perkins and Will, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Objectives: This study explored design solutions that can help clinicians manage work-related stress, pursue mindful work, and practice relaxation and coping strategies.
Background: Clinicians are experiencing burnout at increasingly higher rates, leading to compromised patient care. While self-care and stress management strategies are shown to be effective in healthcare settings, little is known about how the design of healthcare settings can facilitate these strategies.
Ambient Scent as a Positive Distraction in Long-Term Care Units: Theory of Supportive Design.
HERD
October 2020
Interior Design, Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel, 5635University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
Aim: This study was designed to explore the associations between an ambient scent environment and residents' wellness in long-term care facilities.
Background: The number of older adults living in an institutional setting has been steadily but slowly increasing. Because of a higher chance of having psychological disorders among people living in institutional settings than people living in noninstitutional settings, providing a supportive institutional setting is critical to enhance their wellness.
Informing Healthcare Waiting Area Design Using Transparency Attributes: A Comparative Preference Study.
HERD
July 2017
4 School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
Objective: This study aimed to explore people's visual preference for waiting areas in general hospital environments designed with transparency attributes that fully integrate nature.
Background: Waiting can be a tedious and frustrating experience among people seeking healthcare treatments and negatively affect their perception of the quality of care. Positive distractions and supportive designs have gained increasing attraction to improve people's waiting experience.
Few beds, one would imagine, could withstand three-quarters of a ton landing on them, but this was the challenge successfully met by a box bed from a furniture manufacturer for challenging behaviour environments, Tough Furniture, when, to reassure a customer that the bed could accommodate 30-stone patients, 13 of the company's staff jumped repeatedly on it to ensure that it would survive intact in a real-world setting. Such testing may seem extreme, but is vital, since much of the company's furniture is destined for environments where patients will abuse, and indeed attempt to destroy, components. As MD David Vesty explained to HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, when he visited the company's Shropshire headquarters, it is through manufacturing premium quality cabinet furniture that is both attractive and distinctly non-institutional, but will equally withstand the harshest use, that the company has ensured that its products can live up to the brand name.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith considerable evidence that the quality of the building 'space' within which mentally unwell patients are cared for impacts significantly both on speed and degree of recovery, the Design in Mental Health Network (DIMHN) has been working with the BRE and leading product suppliers over the past 5-6 years to develop a 'Better Bedroom' for such patients. The first Better Bedroom has now been in situ at the Warrington headquarters of specialist window and door manufacturer, Britplas, since September, attracting considerable interest. The aim is to showcase, within a 'mock-up' bedroom adaptable over time to incorporate emerging technologies, some of the latest thinking and features for creating mental healthcare inpatient accommodation that is not only comfortable, calming, and 'non-institutional', but also maximises patient and staff safety.
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