Exploring the Impact of Environmental Design on Patient Healing: A Systematic Literature Review

In this study, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted primarily aimed to study the relationship between environmental design and patient healing. For this purpose, the search strategy was initiated by using various databases including Google Scholar, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, SCOPUS and Springer, etc. The inclusion criteria for the studies were based upon the investigation of the role of environment design in enhancing patient safety, comfort, social and needs. Using these inclusion criteria, the search was conducted and a sample of 121 papers was selected from different databases. The data were extracted from these papers and were subjected to analysis. The findings of the SLR explicitly showed that many factors affect patient needs in general. The dimension of design are divided into spatial, ambient and functional Dimension. The findings of the study support earlier research findings establishing a strong link between the built environment and patient needs and outcomes. Three key design dimensions were explored: spatial, ambient, and functional, all of which were found to influence patient needs in certain key design categories, including lighting, flooring, acoustic quality, visual quality, indoor quality, and accessibility.