Everyday objects as therapeutic elements in psychiatric wards: a theoretical design framework to strengthen patients’ valorization and control

Rehn, J; Chrysikou, E; Müller, Helena

doi:10.1080/24735132.2022.2143157

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“…There is a growing amount of research on the spatial configuration of the consultation room and how this affects the interaction between patient, doctor, and carer as well as the patient experience [22,[24][25][26][27][28]. Studies addressing other spatial contexts and the patient-physician interaction, such as the area around the hospital bed, highlighted that the position of the different actors and the objects that surround them in space matter [29,30]. Considering the importance of space in the patient-doctor relationship and the patient experience, we argue that space should be important during a remote consultation [31].…”

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Healthcare Built Environment and Telemedicine Practice for Social and Environmental Sustainability

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The practice of telemedicine started at the beginning of the 20th century but has never been widely implemented, even though it is significantly sustainable compared to traveling to healthcare However, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic pushed organisations and patients to accept this technology. During the pandemic, telemedicine consultations took place in ad hoc environments without much preparation and planning. As a result, there is a knowledge gap in the field between telemedicine’s clinical care services and healthcare built environment, in terms of design. This research focused on addressing the quality of service and experience of telemedicine in primary healthcare settings and how this could be influenced by the digital infrastructure. Our aim was to understand the correlations between telemedicine and healthcare built environment and whether the latter could have a significant impact on telemedicine practice. The methodology included interviews with professionals involved in healthcare planning, architecture and ethnography, and end user research involving telemedicine sessions. The interviews highlighted that professionals involved in the design of healthcare environments demonstrated limited consideration of telemedicine environments. Yet, the ethnographic, end-user research identified areas where the telemedicine environment could affect user experience and should be taken into consideration in the design of such spaces.

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Healthcare Built Environment and Telemedicine Practice for Social and Environmental Sustainability

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“…While, as presented above, this concept has been implemented for decades (e.g., Packard, 1957 ), this paper illustrates approaches of utilising design primes in the context of health-promoting design. Therapeutic built environments such as hospitals and rehabilitation clinics are usually filled with aesthetic features that communicate to some extent a specific medical regime ( Rehn-Groenendijk 2022 ). Whereas certain elements such as, e.g., flooring material or lighting are still mainly designed based on specific technical or functional needs (e.g., hygiene, safety) and an overall aesthetic concept, their additional subconscious effects on parameters such as clinical outcomes and health behaviour is often underestimated.…”

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“…This applies in particular to the emotionally charged context of healthcare settings. In some medical fields, insights from this line of research might be difficult to implement and require small-scale interventions (e.g., Rehn-Groenendijk 2022 ). With regards to the specific field of orthopaedic rehabilitation, an overarching theme can be identified and addressed by design.…”

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A process to foster pathology-related effects of design primes – how orthopedic patients might benefit from design features that influence health behaviour intention

Rehn-Groenendijk,

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Müller

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A growing body of literature mainly in the context of consumer research indicates that the formal-aesthetic and conceptual design of objects can influence users’ thoughts, emotions and even behavioural patterns. While there is strong evidence regarding these effects on actual purchasing decisions, evidence on the effect of aesthetic design features (e.g., haptics, colour) on health-related mental concepts and intentions for health behaviour change is scarce. Based on insights from material and conceptual priming, this article illustrates the research-driven and evidence-based design process of two design primes and comprises pre-tests and an experiment in two settings on the effect of design on health behaviour focusing i.a. on intention for health behaviour change. In an evidence-based and research-driven process, two lecterns were designed to work as primes, i.e., to have a positive vs. negative influence on several mental constructs (sense of control, sense of coherence, resiliency, self-efficacy) and health-related intention. The lecterns differed mainly in terms of aesthetic appearance (e.g., material, colour, proportion, steadiness). They were tested in (a.) a university setting with students (n = 83) and (b.) a clinical setting with orthopaedic rehabilitation patients (n = 38). Participants were asked to perform an unrelated task (evaluation of an unrelated product) while standing at and using the lecterns. Overall, t-tests and Mann–Whitney-U tests show no significant differences but differing tendencies in a mentioning task. When asked to name health-promoting activities, in the clinical setting, participants using the “positive” prime (i.e., the steady lectern, n = 13) mentioned more sport-related aspects on average and a higher portion of sport-related aspects of their answers than participants using the “negative” prime (n = 11). In the university setting (positive: n = 36; negative n = 38), no such differences emerged. This finding gives reason to believe that the prime might be specifically effective in the clinical setting as it relates to physical activity being the most relevant topic of the patients’ pathology.

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Everyday objects as therapeutic elements in psychiatric wards: a theoretical design framework to strengthen patients’ valorization and control

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Healthcare Built Environment and Telemedicine Practice for Social and Environmental Sustainability

Healthcare Built Environment and Telemedicine Practice for Social and Environmental Sustainability

A process to foster pathology-related effects of design primes – how orthopedic patients might benefit from design features that influence health behaviour intention

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