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This study aims to understand if, how, and why patients in inpatient neurorehabilitation environments modify or personalise their rooms.
Recovering from neurotrauma can involve weeks or months in specialised hospital settings, most of which patients spend in their rooms. In fact, rehabilitation environments have been described by patients as depersonalising and exacerbating a loss of sense of self and identity following neurotrauma.
Promisingly, enriched environments can positively affect mood, anxiety, and depression, after neurotrauma. Despite evidence of the physical environment's importance to patients' health, we do not know if, how, and why patients personalise their rooms where they spend most of their time. This lack of knowledge limits our understanding of how hospital environments can be enriched and personalised to support patient rehabilitation.
The knowledge generated by this investigation may foster patient-centred healthcare, better address psychological and emotional aspects of rehabilitation and enhance patient experience. This research will partner with clinician-researchers from the Gold Coast University Hospital and Logan Hospital, building upon existing relations and extending them, while also building clinician research capacity.
This study aims to understand if, how, and why patients in inpatient neurorehabilitation environments modify or personalise their rooms.
Recovering from neurotrauma can involve weeks or months in specialised hospital settings, most of which patients spend in their rooms. In fact, rehabilitation environments have been described by patients as depersonalising and exacerbating a loss of sense of self and identity following neurotrauma.
Promisingly, enriched environments can positively affect mood, anxiety, and depression, after neurotrauma. Despite evidence of the physical environment's importance to patients' health, we do not know if, how, and why patients personalise their rooms where they spend most of their time. This lack of knowledge limits our understanding of how hospital environments can be enriched and personalised to support patient rehabilitation.
The knowledge generated by this investigation may foster patient-centred healthcare, better address psychological and emotional aspects of rehabilitation and enhance patient experience. This research will partner with clinician-researchers from the Gold Coast University Hospital and Logan Hospital, building upon existing relations and extending them, while also building clinician research capacity.
