Abstract
The first objective of this study is to grasp of actual situation about bed spacing in general hospital wards. The second objective is to analyze inpatients' evaluation on the bed spacing. The third objective is to find out some relationship between the bedside environment and inpatients' evaluation on the bed spacing by means of FACTOR ANALYSIS. The results of the analysis are abstracted as follows ; 1) In general hospital wards, most of the distance from a bed to next (<A-DISTANCE>) are under 90cm. 2) The depth of each bed room does not affect <A-DISTANCE>, but greatly affects the distance from a bed to wall/window (<B-DISTANCE>). 3) Most of all inpatients judged that <A-DISTANCE> to next bed is "near", the bedside area of their own is "narrow", and the volume of the bed room is "small". 4) The bed room's floor area per one bed is larger in 2 beds room than in 4 or 6 beds room, but the inpatients judged that the bedside area of their own is narrower in 2 beds room than in 4 or 6 beds rooms. 5) As the result of FACTOR ANALYSIS, 3 main factors which concerned with inpatients' evaluation about bed room were found. The first factor can be interpreted as WARM, and is influenced by the quality of environment of a bed room. The second can be interpreted as SIZE, and is influenced by the unit floor area per one bed. The third can be interpreted as QUIETNESS and influenced by the number of beds in a room.
