| Title |
Users' Responses for Designing the User-Oriented Patient Room |
| Keywords |
Patient Room Design ; Healthcare Design ; Patient-Oriented Design ; User-Oriented Design |
| Abstract |
This study was based on the idea that the patient-oriented concept in healthcare design would be extended to the user-oriented one which considered all users' views including patients, families, and nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate what elements the users would consider to be important in patient room design. The subjects of this study were 96 inpatients, 89 families, and 98 nurses in two general hospitals in Busan. Interview and self-administered questionnaire were used for collecting data. The subjects answered about what degree of importance each element had and what element they think to be the most important in patient room design. The results of this study were as follows; The users thought that the location of nursing station, outdoor view from patient room, persons per room, noise, ventilation, square meter per person, home-likeness, and consideration for families and visitors were important design elements which should be considered primarily in patient room design. Also the nurses considered most of the design elements presented as more important than the patients and families. However, in the case of the psychological elements, there were no differences in degrees of importance among the users. |