healing environment

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of nature on positive distractibility in hospitalized patients with a focus on their mental dimension. Method: In this study a qualitative approach was applied. First, a particular hospital was chosen. The criteria for choosing the hospital were different perspectives that the hospital provided for patients by both natural and non-natural spaces. Then, some questionnaires were distributed among the patients that contain items about their anxiety and pain. Results: The findings of the study indicated that the admitted patients viewing the natural scenery were more satisfied than the admitted patients viewing non-natural scenes. Conclusion: This satisfaction is rooted in human nature, and individual differences have no effect on it, so using this healing power of nature leads to positive distraction.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17632/yx9pszh6wg.1
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-vctc-ms
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:75730
Provenance
Creator emami, E
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor elham emami
Publication Year 2017
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Other