(Ebook) Evaluating Staff Perceptions of Supportive Healing Environment in Healthcare Facilities by Ph.D. Candidate PATRICK CHUKWUEMEKE UWAJEH1 , Ph.D. Candidate IKENNA STEPHEN EZENNIA ISBN 9781563677595, 9780750646024, 9781317763703, 9780306439827, 0750646020, 1563677598, 131776370X, 0306439824

(Ebook) Evaluating Staff Perceptions of Supportive Healing Environment in Healthcare Facilities by Ph.D. Candidate PATRICK CHUKWUEMEKE UWAJEH1 , Ph.D. Candidate IKENNA STEPHEN EZENNIA ISBN 9781563677595, 9780750646024, 9781317763703, 9780306439827, 0750646020, 1563677598, 131776370X, 0306439824

Evidence-based design strategies can improve stress-free environments in
healthcare, by emphasizing strategic opportunities to influence the design of health
facilities. Evidence-based design (EBD) as a tool for healthcare planning is a
method that began in healthcare having a general purpose of providing evidence
based medicine. It involved Gathering information and evidence and using this
evidence to mold the environment which supports the programming stage in design
problem-solving. The connection between the theories and use of findings in (EBD),
have not been adequately revealed enough to be used as a tool in design. As such,
several factors, or characteristics, evident in numerous studies about healing
environment and (EBD), require categorization into tangible and non-tangible
dimensions in order to apply them during the design process successfully. Among
others, four distinct variable or factors summarized from the work of two
researchers – Dilani (2009) and Ulrich (1991) have been selected to be tested in
this research; (1) enhancement of social support, (2) stimulating design features, (3)
flexibility and coherence (4) connection to nature, focusing on the hierarchy of the
above mentioned attributes according to their relevance in application and
outcomes. Two research questions served as a foundation for the investigation of
attributes in healing environments: What critical attributes can be identified by
healthcare staff related to Dilani and Ulrich’s research findings? Is a hierarchy of
attributes perceived by healthcare staff? The aim of this research is to closely
examine the factors of Psychosocial Supportive Design theory by Alan Dilani
(2001) and Supportive design theory (SDT) by Roger Ulrich (1991) on the staff in
Eastern Mediterranean university health centre. Questioners and site visit were
used for data collection. SPSS was used to obtain percentages from data collected.
The result of the study reveals a hierarchy of factors perceived by the staff that can
promote supportive healing.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 13-25.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4678