The Impact of Greening Spaces on Patients in Psychiatric Hospital
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Lee, Tsai-Wei
Abstract
The studies in the field of human-environment interaction have long been interested in, especially in the effect of nature and plants on human well-being, such as environmental psychology, horticulture activities and outdoor recreation. A lot of researches already show that most people prefer natural environment than urban city, and it is proved that nature landscape or the window view of nature can reduce stress and make people feel more relaxed. The benefits of nature elements can be applied to any kind of space such as hospitals, prisons, or residential settings. The purpose of this study is to understand how the greening environments affect the patients in their psycho-physiological benefits at Bali Psychiatric Center in Taiwan. In this study, greening time is also considered as a factor. There are two main parts in this study: Indoor greening and outdoor greening. In the first part, we decorate the public space in the ward building with plants. In the second part, we green the outside garden next to the ward building. Each part persists 3 weeks after the pretest. The patients are asked to fill the same questionnaire one time per week in the whole experiment process. This questionnaire includes the ZIPERS metal effects, PRS and satisfaction, and we also collect our patients’ anamnesis as physical index. The result shows that greening environment has higher attention restoration than in pretest, but there are no significant differences in the experiment process, which means that the effect of greening on attention restoration can reveal within a week. It is also found that the positive effect of greening on patients’ mood state reveal in the second week after the greening. No significant effect was found in the physical indexes. According to the results, both indoor and outdoor greening have significant effect on the patients’ attention restoration and their mood states, and greening time is found as a factor which will affect the perceived benefits of the patients. The result can contribute to studies about the nature landscape doses and other related studies in this field.
Subjects
restorative environments
psycho-physiological benefits
natural landscape benefits
ART
People–plant interactions
Type
thesis
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