ICU Patient Family Stress Recovery During Breaks in a Hospital Garden and Indoor Environments.

HERD
Roger S UlrichR Serene Perkins

Abstract

Measure the immediate change in intensive care unit (ICU) family members' state stress levels from the beginning to the end of a person's visit to a hospital garden and compare the changes produced by the garden with those associated with spending time in indoor hospital environments intended for respite and relaxation. No previous research has compared the efficacy of different physical environments as interventions to foster stress reduction in family members of ICU patients, a group of hospital visitors known to experience high levels of distress. A convenience sample of 42 ICU patient family (from 42 different families) completed the Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales (PFVAS) before and after each visit (128 total visits) to a garden, an atrium/café, or ICU waiting room. Stress scores significantly declined (i.e., improved) from the start to the end of a break on all PFVAS subscales (p < .0001) in both the garden and indoors locations. However, it is noteworthy that garden breaks resulted in significantly greater improvement in the "sadness" scale than breaks in indoor locations (p = .03), and changes in all five other PFVAS scores showed somewhat more reduction of stress for breaks spent in the garden than indoors,...Continue Reading

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