The aim of this study is to find out what kind of daily living environment for inpatients should be provided in hospitals by clarifying the relationship between therapeutic / healing environment and inpatients' days. The analysis focused on the differences in inpatients' behaviors during ordinary and free time in different physical settings. The questionnaire and interview surveys had been carried out in each medical/surgical ward in three hospitals. The major findings are shown below:
1. The satisfaction of private room is the best, and the satisfaction of new type of “territorialized” 4-beds rooms is better than the satisfaction of traditional type of 4-beds rooms.
2. In particular, the satisfaction evaluation of the area, the sound, the privacy, the communication and the atmosphere in the private room are better than that in 4-beds rooms.
3. Besides the view, each performance in new type of “territorialized” 4-beds rooms is better than that in traditional type of 4-beds rooms.
4. In traditional type of 4-beds rooms, the satisfaction evaluation of the area, the light and the view is remarkably higher in the space environment of the window side bed than the corridor side bed. In new type of “territorialized” 4-beds rooms, there is a tendency that the satisfaction evaluation of the light and the view in the corridor side bed is near to that in the window side bed, and the satisfaction evaluation of the area, the room temperature, the smell, the usability, the security and the beautiful sight in the corridor side bed is higher than that in the window side bed, the space environment of the corridor side bed is improved.
5. We should plan the physical space environment of the whole fitting the attribute and the life style of the inpatients, including the outside space.
