Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planing, Isfahan University of Art, Isfahan, Iran
2 School of Managment and Medical Information Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfshan, Iran
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In recent years, among managers and designers of health‑care spaces, there
has been a growing tendency to move toward hospital design by combining patient perceptions
and expectations of the physical environment of the care area. The main idea of this study was
to present a conceptual model of hospital architecture in our country with a patient‑centered
approach based on some factors that were affecting the sense of place. This model determined
the architectural features of treatment spaces from a patient’s lived experience that could have a
positive mental effect on patients as well. The main question of the research was how to adapt the
objective perception to the patient’s mental perception to create a sense of place in the hospital
space?
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This research was qualitative with a phenomenological approach,
conducted between July and December 2020. Purposeful sampling consisted of 23 patients, 13 males
in the male surgery unit and 10 females in the gynecology unit, who were interviewed in‑depth. They
were hospitalized for at least 3 days in two hospitals (Dr. Pirooz in Lahijan and Ghaem in Rasht).
The data were analyzed by the Colaizzi method.
RESULTS: The results consisted of 530 primary codes, 57 subthemes, and 7 main themes. The main
themes were hospital location, access to hospital, hospital identity, hospital dependency, hospital
attachment, human interactions in the hospital, and hospital evaluation.
CONCLUSION: The hospital form guided the patient, and the hospital function directed and obviated
the patient’s needs. The healing environment and human interactions with it caused the patient to
be satisfied with the hospital environment.
Keywords
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