Health benefits of a view of nature through the window: a quasi-experimental study of patients in a residential rehabilitation center

Objective: To examine the health benefits of a bedroom window view to natural surroundings for patients undergoing a residential rehabilitation programme. Design: Longitudinal quasi-experiment. Setting: A residential rehabilitation centre. Subjects: Two-hundred and seventy-eight coronary and pulmona...

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Vydáno v:Clinical rehabilitation Ročník 26; číslo 1; s. 21 - 32
Hlavní autoři: Raanaas, Ruth Kjærsti, Patil, Grete Grindal, Hartig, Terry
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2012
Sage Publications Ltd
Témata:
Attitudes
Bedrooms
Cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiovascular disease
Changes
Coronary Disease - psychology
Coronary Disease - rehabilitation
Emotional states
Environmental science
Female
Gender
Health Facility Environment
Health status
Heart
Humans
Inpatients - psychology
Leisure
Leisure Activities - psychology
Life sciences
Longitudinal Studies
Lung Diseases - psychology
Lung Diseases - rehabilitation
Male
Measurement
Mental disorders
Mental health
Middle Aged
Nature
Norway
Patients
psychological factors
pulmonary rehabilitation
Quasi-experimental methods
Recovery (Medical)
Recreation
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Centers
Residential care
Self report
Sex Factors
Stress
Subjectivity
Treatment programs
Well being
Windows
Women
Norway
pulmonary rehabilitation
leisure
psychological factors
Cardiac rehabilitation
recreation
ISSN:0269-2155, 1477-0873, 1477-0873
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Shrnutí:Objective: To examine the health benefits of a bedroom window view to natural surroundings for patients undergoing a residential rehabilitation programme. Design: Longitudinal quasi-experiment. Setting: A residential rehabilitation centre. Subjects: Two-hundred and seventy-eight coronary and pulmonary patients provided data at all measurement points during the programme. Intervention: Blind, quasi-random allocation to a private bedroom with a panoramic view to natural surroundings or with a view either partially or entirely blocked by buildings. Main measures: Self-reported physical and mental health (SF-12), subjective well-being, emotional states, use of the private bedroom and leisure activities. Results: For women, a blocked view appeared to negatively influence change in physical health (time × view × gender interaction, F(4,504) = 2.51, P = 0.04), whereas for men, a blocked view appeared to negatively influence change in mental health (time × view × gender interaction, F(4,504) = 5.67, P < 0.01). Pulmonary patients with a panoramic view showed greater improvement in mental health than coronary patients with such a view (time × view × diagnostic group interaction, F(4,504) = 2.76, P = 0.03). Those with a panoramic view to nature more often chose to stay in their bedroom when they wanted to be alone than those with a blocked view (odds ratio (OR) = 2.32, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.08–5.01). Conclusion: An unobstructed bedroom view to natural surroundings appears to have better supported improvement in self-reported physical and mental health during a residential rehabilitation programme, although the degree of change varied with gender and diagnostic group.
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ISSN:0269-2155
1477-0873
1477-0873
DOI:10.1177/0269215511412800