Hospital Architecture Design with a Patient-centered Approach: Identifying factors affecting the patient's lived experience of the sense of place in the therapeutic space

In recent years, among managers and designers of healthcare spaces, there has been a growing tendency to move towards hospital design by combining patient perceptions and expectations of the physical environment of the care area. The main question of the research was how to adapt the objective perception to the patient’s mental perception to create a sense of place in the hospital space.The purpose of this study is to investigate the patient’s perception of the factors affecting the sense of place in the hospital space to assess how they perceive the components of the hospital location.

This was qualitative research with a phenomenological approach conducted between July and December 2020. Purposeful sampling was performed on 23 patients that waz admitted in surgical ward of Pirooz and Ghaem hospitals in Gilan province and the participants were interviewed in depth.The data, analyzed by the Colaizzi method.

  consisted of 530 primary codes, 57 sub-themes, and seven main themes. The main themes were hospital location, access to hospital, hospital identity, hospital dependency, hospital attachment, human interactions in the hospital, and hospital evaluation.

  A successful treatment with human interactions within the hospital between patients and users and companions in a complete hospital with efficient space through fixed features of the environment ,and a healing environment with the help of environmental variable features and hospitalization in a suitable position in the city which its easy accessibility, and identification were effective in creating a general sense of the patient towards the hospital.