Articlegold2019

Rehabilitation environments: Service users’ perspective

Maggie Killington · Dean Fyfe · Allan Patching · Annabel McNamara · Venugopal Kochiyil · Maria Crotty

23 citations0/0 files storedHealth Expectations

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Healthcare Facilities Design and Sustainability Medical Practices and Rehabilitation Facilities and Workplace Management

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Design of rehabilitation environments is usually "expert" driven with little consideration given to the perceptions of service users, especially patients and informal carers. There is a need to engage with consumers of services to gain their insights into what design aspects are required to facilitate optimum physical activity, social interaction and psychological responses when they are attempting to overcome their limitations and regain function. RESEARCH DESIGN: Qualitative exploratory study. METHOD: Interviews were conducted with patients (n = 54) and informal carers (n = 23), and focus groups with rehabilitation staff (n = 90), from the three metropolitan South Australia rehabilitation health services, comprising different building and environmental configurations. Thematic analysis was assisted by the use of NVivo 11 qualitative software, with pooled data from all interviews and focus groups undergoing open, axial and finally selective coding. RESULTS: Four major themes were identified as follows: (a) choice can be an Illusion in a rehabilitation ward; (b) access to outside areas is a priority and affects well-being; (c) socialization can be facilitated by the environment; and (d) ward configuration should align with the model of care. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Participants who encountered the most restrictive environments accepted their situation until probed to consider alternatives; those who enjoyed the most choice and access to facilities showed the greatest enthusiasm for these affordances. Future architectural designers should therefore consider the perceptions of a wide range of consumers with varying experiences to ensure they understand the complex requirements of patients and that the ward design facilitates the optimum rehabilitation model of care.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 23 citations exist upstream.

References

1966Psychological stress and the coping process 1991Rigor in Qualitative Research: The Assessment of Trustworthiness 2002Handbook of environmental psychology 2001The perception-behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior 1998WHEN BUILDINGS DON’T WORK: THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN HUMAN HEALTH 2006Physical environmental stimuli that turn healthcare facilities into healing environments through psychologically mediated effects: systematic review 1986The meaning of the built environment: a nonverbal communication approach 2012Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Cited by

2023The role of the physical environment in stroke recovery: Evidence-based design principles from a mixed-methods multiple case study 2024A Structured Literature Review on the Research and Design of Rehabilitation Environments 2024Interior design ways of knowing: Embracing unpredictability

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.