Factors of Indoor Therapeutic Environment and their Effects on Patients and Health care workers

Abstract

Therapeutic environment, Artwork, Daylighting, recovery, interior design, patients, health care worker, healing, factors. Patients seek therapeutic environments to receive the best medical care aiming for fast recovery. Indoor design of the therapeutic environment is essential in creating a comfortable environment reducing the patient's isolation, distracting him from its disease, evoking positive feeling and helping his rapid recovery. This study illustrated the factors of the indoor therapeutic environment that should be embedded in the design to achieve the needed results. Those factors are the connection to nature, enhancing social supports, stimulating interior design features. These factors affect positively the health care workers, helping in improving their performance, productivity, and the patient's physical, psychological and improving their health and wellbeing. The case study proposed integration of those factors in the indoor design of a dental clinic for children to satisfy patient's relaxation and comfort and create a welcoming and friendly environment. The problem was stated in the question; Can the indoor design and furniture of any therapeutic environment impact on the psychological, physical and cognitive health of patients and health care workers? With an objective of revealing the factors of the indoor design and their effects in therapeutic environment that can make a great difference in the patient's and the health care workers' health and wellbeing.