Mission statement
“Social spaces for young children refer to the constructed environment and available opportunities for children to interact with family members, friends and others while in hospital.”
¬----------V. Lambert
Children often feel frightened, sad, lonely, worried in hospital for the Strange, anonymous, enormous and authoritarian places. To children, hospitals are horrific places where sick people live in, and not so horrific when people get better (Carney et al. 2003; Curtis et al. 2007).Hospitalization results in a far-reaching lifestyle transformation where the child enters a strange and alien world of foreign sights, sounds and smells. Increasing interest has been ascribed to the impact of hospital environments on children’s psychosocial well-being in the last several decades (NHS Estates 2003; Hutton 2005; …show more content…
2005; Aldiss et al. 2009; Bishop 2009, 2010; Pelander & Leino-Kilpi 2010; Fletcher et al. 2011). Children often cited social support (i.e. making friends with other children, talking to other children in nearby beds or in the garden about the best thing about hospital. On the contrary, being alone with peer and limited family instills feelings of loneliness, isolation, sadness, boredom and anxiety in children (Clift et al. 2007; Wilson et al. 2010). However, accessibility to parents and peers supply children with a sense of comfort and security (Norton-Westwood 2012). Although Lewis and colleagues (2009) discussed how visual hospital bed displays, and created to personalize their bed space by child patients, which enrich social relationships and interactions in a hospital environment, few studies have clearly explored young children’s opinions of hospital social spaces. Indeed, although tremendous progress have happened to humanize children’s hospital environments, certain evidence still suggests that hospital environments are not designed to satisfy the
“Social spaces for young children refer to the constructed environment and available opportunities for children to interact with family members, friends and others while in hospital.”
¬----------V. Lambert
Children often feel frightened, sad, lonely, worried in hospital for the Strange, anonymous, enormous and authoritarian places. To children, hospitals are horrific places where sick people live in, and not so horrific when people get better (Carney et al. 2003; Curtis et al. 2007).Hospitalization results in a far-reaching lifestyle transformation where the child enters a strange and alien world of foreign sights, sounds and smells. Increasing interest has been ascribed to the impact of hospital environments on children’s psychosocial well-being in the last several decades (NHS Estates 2003; Hutton 2005; …show more content…
2005; Aldiss et al. 2009; Bishop 2009, 2010; Pelander & Leino-Kilpi 2010; Fletcher et al. 2011). Children often cited social support (i.e. making friends with other children, talking to other children in nearby beds or in the garden about the best thing about hospital. On the contrary, being alone with peer and limited family instills feelings of loneliness, isolation, sadness, boredom and anxiety in children (Clift et al. 2007; Wilson et al. 2010). However, accessibility to parents and peers supply children with a sense of comfort and security (Norton-Westwood 2012). Although Lewis and colleagues (2009) discussed how visual hospital bed displays, and created to personalize their bed space by child patients, which enrich social relationships and interactions in a hospital environment, few studies have clearly explored young children’s opinions of hospital social spaces. Indeed, although tremendous progress have happened to humanize children’s hospital environments, certain evidence still suggests that hospital environments are not designed to satisfy the