Impact of office light environment on mental health interventions for employees: An investigative analysis

Work, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 4, 2025

Background The increasing prevalence of work-related stress and mental health issues has become a global concern, particularly in developing countries. light environment office spaces, known to influence both visual non-visual aspects health, is critical factor that needs further exploration for its potential enhancing employees’ psychological well-being. Objective aim our study was investigate the role environments spaces influencing well-being employees. Methods conducted 2 locations Shanghai Dalian, China analyzed data from 235 Data on effects were self-reported by participants, employees measured dimensions (differences color perception, differences perception between natural dynamic lighting artificial static lighting). hue lightness employee psychology, versus conventional mood analyzed. Results findings revealed luminance significantly affect satisfaction emotional states. Specifically, lighting, which aligns with photoperiod, found effectively reduce negative emotions such as anger depression, offering promising intervention improving workplace. Conclusions settings plays significant mitigating among While confirms positive it also highlights need interdisciplinary research fully understand complex mechanisms involved.

Language: Английский

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Making memories: creative research and sensory history

Rethinking History, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 32

Published: April 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Human-Building-Technology Interactions in Healthcare Environments: A Guiding Analytical Framework Based on Mediation Theory

HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 30, 2025

Objective: There is a need for more theoretical understanding of human behavior to inform the decision-making related how technology should be integrated into healthcare environments. Background: Healthcare systems are transforming with embedded within built environment facilities. The placement these technologies, however, only sometimes considers needs or workflow patients, visitors staff. Despite similarities, evidence-based design, smart building design and human–building interaction research rarely intersect. However, each relies on multi-disciplinary insights enhance fields. In this paper, we contextualize through an analytical framework inspired by mediation theory. Methods: Based five case examples from previous studies site visits, present explain theory provides insight interaction. Results Conclusions: Looking at lens theory, it apparent that specific decisions taken in spatial technological impact behaviors occupants. This paper environments used unintendedly, resulting adapting use meet user's needs. Mediation such encounters which will allow researchers anticipate user avoid disruptive technologies future.

Language: Английский

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Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing

Home Cultures, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 16(3), P. 213 - 232

Published: Sept. 2, 2019

This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise create circumstances homeliness. We draw ethnographic undertaken Older Persons Unit (OPU) Psychiatric Department, before and after Unit’s move from an older facility newly built large regional hospital Australia. propose that ongoing everyday designing homeliness staff, collaboration with patients, is element care contributes significantly bringing feeling “home,” comfort associated it, into environment.

Language: Английский

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Impact of the design of adult mental health inpatient facilities on healthcare staff: a mixed methods systematic review

BMJ Open, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. e074368 - e074368

Published: March 1, 2024

Objectives Mental health inpatient facilities are increasingly focusing on creating therapeutic, person-centred care environments. However, research shows that this focus may have unintended consequences for healthcare staff. Designs do not pay attention to staff needs risk contributing stress, burnout, job dissatisfaction and mental exhaustion in the work environment. This systematic review aims identify synthesise current design factors of adult impact Design A mixed method was conducted search empirical, peer-reviewed studies using databases CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed Web Science from their inception up 5 September 2023. The Joanna Briggs Institute’s critical appraisal checklists were used assess methodological quality eligible studies. Data extracted grouped based facility factors. Results In our review, we included 29 empirical identified crucial impacting facilities. Key layouts providing optimal visibility, designated respite areas, centrally located nursing stations. Notably, perceptions regarding benefits challenges open glass-enclosed stations suggest areas requiring further research. Facilities geographically remote locations also emerged as a factor influencing dynamics. Additionally, although only supported by limited number studies, significance artwork, sensory rooms respite, appropriate furniture equipment, access alarms acknowledged contributory Conclusion Through synthesis existing research, significantly impacts well-being, satisfaction, performance perception safety. Concluding that, order create well-designed therapeutic environment, it is essential account both service users user needs. PROSPERO registration CRD42022368155.

Language: Английский

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Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit

Design for Health, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 4(1), P. 24 - 42

Published: Jan. 2, 2020

In this article we directly address the question of atmosphere in a psychiatric inpatient unit, focussing on particular role that forms care delivered 'on move' play shaping atmosphere. Our approach, based sensory ethnography, foregrounds perspective staff who work environment, showing how they enact via mobile, and spatial expertize. particular, focus anticipation movement people apprehend try to shape hospital wards. We argue points towards need for shift our thinking about designing environments care, one accounts contingent atmospheres so often characterize them. This also offers way forward designers allow wards ongoingly constitute these distinctive surroundings.

Language: Английский

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Remaking critical care: Place, body work and the materialities of care in the COVID intensive care unit

Sociology of Health & Illness, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 46(3), P. 361 - 380

Published: Sept. 13, 2023

Abstract In this article, we take forward sociological ways of knowing care‐in‐practice, in particular work critical care. To do so, analyse the experiences staff working care during first wave COVID‐19 pandemic UK. This moment exception throws into sharp relief which and place were reconfigured conditions surge, shows how depends at all times on co‐constitution place, practices relations. Our analysis draws anthropological material culture health its sensory instantiations. Pursuing through a study 40 across four intensive units (ICUs) 2020, provide an empirical theoretical elaboration body are mutually co‐constitutive. We argue that ICU does not exist independently constant embodied place‐making iteratively constitute as total system

Language: Английский

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‘ … breaks down silos’: allied health clinicians’ perceptions of informal interprofessional interactions in the healthcare workplace

Health Sociology Review, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 31(1), P. 47 - 63

Published: March 4, 2021

Informal interprofessional interactions have gained interest in recent care, education, health services and social sciences research literature. Some of the established benefits associated with these include enhanced communication, teamwork, translation provision safer care. Limited evidence about how informal are perceived by allied workforce, exists. The survey conducted at a large Australian service explored clinicians' perceptions benefits, challenges enablers their recommendations to improve opportunities for workplace interactions. Sixty-four responses were analysed descriptively (for close-ended questions) using framework analysis approach, informed Bourdieu's space theory open-ended questions). Perceived aligned three themes: teams organisations, individual clinicians service-users. Challenges to, of, identified according five socio-cultural practices, physical environment, timing-related factors, organisational factors. Participant increase reflected aforementioned environment This theoretically-informed may aid development strategies support types realise identified.

Language: Английский

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How do care environments shape healthcare? A synthesis of qualitative studies among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ Open, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(9), P. e063867 - e063867

Published: Sept. 1, 2022

To investigate how care is shaped through the material practices and spaces of healthcare environments during COVID-19 pandemic.Critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) qualitative research.Studies included research investigating experiences workers involved in individuals pandemic.134 articles were identified initial sampling frame with 38 studies involving 2507 participants final synthesis. Three themes analysis: (1) hospital transformed, (2) virtual (3) objects care. Through generation these themes, a synthesising argument was developed to demonstrate shape delivery provide insights support providers creating enabling resilient environments.The findings this study enable constrain modes Practices are materiality objects, including change face pandemic disruption. The implication that environment needs be viewed as critical adaptive element optimisation also develops versatile coherent approach CIS methods can taken up future research.

Language: Английский

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Concepts of performance in post-occupancy evaluation post-probe: a literature review

Building Research & Information, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 51(4), P. 369 - 391

Published: Oct. 21, 2022

Building performance is a widely held goal in the architecture, engineering and construction industries, driven by shared pursuit of triple bottom line. This research paper re-examined term 'performance' its characterization post-occupancy evaluation (POE) literature using semi-systematic review 160 articles published since 2008. The identified how parameters have been defined, what dominant attributes studies are metrics used to measure them. A thematic content analysis found that many new priorities had emerged recent years, problematizing Preiser et al.'s 1988 construct concept. main contribution this expanded definition terms three interrelated domains: building, people organization, development subcategories for more nuanced analysis. builds on building performance-people paradigm first established UK's PROBE initiative responds several shifts thinking results revealed, including shift from deterministic towards bidirectional understanding person-environment relationship. Results were further distilled into recommendations be researchers, practitioners policymakers identify areas interest develop adaptive, integrated approaches POE work.

Language: Английский

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