Recognition of Effective Components in the Architecture of Healing Environments for Reduction of Patient Stress in Specialized Heart Centers

Abstract

The healthcare environments usually consider the health, functional, and physical communications in the existing spaces for healing and treatment of the people in the society, based on the intended specialty or in a general manner. Patients' sense of comfort has been neglected due to the economic costs and limited thinking of medical center employers. Physical factors can help create healing environments and reduce the patients’ stress and mortality rate. The invariability of healing environments and their inconsistency with the healing components are distinct phenomena. However, the investigations have shown that these two interwoven categories have created broader aspects entitled ‘the healing medical environments,’ which effectively reduce stress. Therefore, in this study, we try to identify and explain the factors that reduce stress and increase life expectancy in patients by recognizing the physical components of the architecture of healing environments. The methodology is descriptive-analytical which reviews the theoretical frameworks of the healing environments. We would contemplate the effectiveness of such environments on the patients’ stress from the viewpoint of different experts so that, in the meantime, we can obtain the physical components of the architecture of the healing environments that are effective in the reduction of the stress in cardiovascular patients. Finally, we would provide the theoretical framework in terms of these components.