Impact of Color on the Psychological Dimension of the Users of Interior spaces in Hospitals - General Hospital in Sulaimani city as a case study

Abstract

The research aims to identify the effect of color on human health in general and psychological dimension, in particular, to enhance the performance of the interior spaces of hospitals by studying the used colors with the possibility of proper utilizing of it with user psychology and health in hospitals spaces. The study also aims to identify the implications of color expression and its impact on the interior design of hospitals and reaching solutions and suggestions achieving greater understanding of color and its utilizing to enhance the efficiency of the hospital spaces .
 The research follows descriptive and analytical methods which have been utilized through the description and analysis of the colors of some of the internal spaces of the selected public hospitals building in the city of Sulaimani, as Case Study. Furthermore, the search adopted field interviews of a group of specialists and users of those architectural spaces with different functions to find out the role of psychological effects of colors on it, and then determine the final conclusions and that is the existence of the possibility of the use of color to improve the psychological state of the patients, users of the internal spaces of hospitals and to help accelerating the healing process.

Healing environment correlated with patients’ psychological comfort: Post-occupancy evaluation of general hospitals

“…The effect of this factor on patients was conducted in some studies. 31,33,34,52 Then, Views was rated as the third most important factor with a significant positive correlation (r = 0.618) with overall patient satisfaction. The role of views in increasing the level of satisfaction in patients has been conducted in some studies.…”

“…User satisfaction has different definitions from different standpoints according to the context of the research. 33,34 It may refer to the relation between the user’s satisfaction and indoor environment quality (thermal, visual, acoustic and air quality) in addition to the place of work and characteristics of the interior spaces (i.e. size, aesthetic appearance, furniture and cleanliness).…”