Istanbul Şişi Etfal Hospital: Evaluating hospital's Outdoor Space and its Effect on the User’s Health

Abstract

Hospitals are widely accepted as environments full of stress not only for the patients but even for the workers who spent long hours there. In this respect environmental quality plays an important role in understanding the relationship between the people and such kind of buildings. This research will be conducted to find out the Sisli Etfal hospital user’s point of view on the outer space that surround the hospital building which by the time has changed dramatically. These rapid changes have been the driving force to establish the main aim of this research. Weather are these environmental conditions that influence significantly stress and what are the circumstances of the coping process are two issues that got answer by the end of the research. Conducted with the help of the questionnaires directed to the hospital’s users who were randomly selected, the study emphasizes the importance of the outer space to the patient health. The evaluation of the found data from the survey together with researcher’s observations of the spatial physical aspects of the outer space it is stressed the urgent need for intervention in the hospitals’ outdoors in Istanbul.