Holistic Healing Environment In Pediatric Hospital Settings

Environment affects how we think, feel and behave. It shapes our habits, expectations of normality and values. Affect human physically and psychologically, it can support and nourish physical, mental and social development. In healthcare, Positive environmental stimulation can promote patient well-being by reducing stress or negative feelings. An increasing body of research shows that hospital interior design has an important impact on healthcare consequences, but there is a limited of research’s on children’s pediatrics hospitals, although research is often difficult for designers to understand and apply in decision making. While improving children’s patient experience didn’t receive the attention that it needs to make a thoughtful progress. The primary goal of this dissertation is to develop design requirements in pediatric hospitals as a holistic healing environment. This based on the principle of reducing patient stress by understanding children’s experience in the hospital environment, also to investigate the role of the physical environment in the patient’s feelings and well-being. This study is vital as it explains what the child healthcare environment should constitute to support them. To develop the healing environment in the pediatric setting, this research starts with an extensive literature review about interior space elements in pediatric, children’s needs, indoor healing environment and the design requirements in pediatric settings. Following with an analysis for queen Rania hospital for children, using interviews, observations, and questionnaire conducted with patients, parents, and doctors to complement what was found in the literature. The data found in the case study were used to conceptualize more richly a holistic healing environment for children’s in pediatric settings and improve a future development recommendation for Queen Rania Hospital for children in Jordan. Therefore, the significance of this study is to organize design guideline in a pediatric hospital setting, by coming up with influence facture for design and research practices in the pediatric healthcare environment. Keywords: Pediatric Settings, Children, Inpatient, Indoor Healing Environment, Child Friendly, Design, Wellbeing.