Effective Factors in Children’s Specialized Hospital Designing to Decrease Stress (Cases Study: Imam Hossein Children

چکیده مقاله

Therapeutic environment is such environments that affects children’s psychological states, inappropriate designing of these environments can increase behavioral disorders. Due to the current status in children’s hospital in Iran, there are some problems including facilities and appropriate environment shortage, inattention to children’s needs and moods and influence of environment on physical and psychological conditions of sick children. These issues can cause to increase fear, boarding, hospitalization and treatment process. This study is library research and it has been conducted using the results of questionnaires which were fulfilled by 20 sick children in 4 hospitals in Esfahan and mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and analytical method. The results showed that needs of children are divided into two categories: 1) physical environment. 2) Psychological environment. The researchers have presented special solutions for children’s therapeutic environments by paying attention to these needs and using obtained solutions from previous studies about solving the problems in children’s therapeutic environments. These solutions make desirable environment to decrease stress during hospitalization. Therapeutic environment is such environments that affects children’s psychological states, inappropriate designing of these environments can increase behavioral disorders. Due to the current status in children’s hospital in Iran, there are some problems including facilities and appropriate environment shortage, inattention to children’s needs and moods and influence of environment on physical and psychological conditions of sick children. These issues can cause to increase fear, boarding, hospitalization and treatment process. This study is library research and it has been conducted using the results of questionnaires which were fulfilled by 20 sick children in 4 hospitals in Esfahan and mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and analytical method. The results showed that needs of children are divided into two categories: 1) physical environment. 2) Psychological environment. The researchers have presented special solutions for children’s therapeutic environments by paying attention to these needs and using obtained solutions from previous studies about solving the problems in children’s therapeutic environments. These solutions make desirable environment to decrease stress during hospitalization.