Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children
Hospitalisation often erodes the feelings of toddlers and young children causing regressive behaviours and stress, which result in reduced cognitive performance, helplessness, restlessness, crying, anxiety, and elevated blood pressure. Having the ill children experiencing a garden setting, either in...
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| description | Hospitalisation often erodes the feelings of toddlers and young children causing regressive behaviours and stress, which result in reduced cognitive performance, helplessness, restlessness, crying, anxiety, and elevated blood pressure. Having the ill children experiencing a garden setting, either in a passive or an active mode, can arouse their senses that nurture their inductive and deductive, motor-impulses development and reflective thinking capabilities. These interactions have resulted in psychological peacefulness and adjustment by the children including being more cooperative toward medication, less crying, more active and cheerful, and more obedient to caregivers. The behavioural responses are considered positive clinical outcomes that foster recovery rate of the hospitalised children. Hence, the garden can be viewed as an environmental intervention in enhancing the healing process of ill children in hospital environment. |
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| spelling | utm-5612017-08-30T14:04:37Z http://eprints.utm.my/561/ Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children Said, Ismail GV Recreation Leisure Hospitalisation often erodes the feelings of toddlers and young children causing regressive behaviours and stress, which result in reduced cognitive performance, helplessness, restlessness, crying, anxiety, and elevated blood pressure. Having the ill children experiencing a garden setting, either in a passive or an active mode, can arouse their senses that nurture their inductive and deductive, motor-impulses development and reflective thinking capabilities. These interactions have resulted in psychological peacefulness and adjustment by the children including being more cooperative toward medication, less crying, more active and cheerful, and more obedient to caregivers. The behavioural responses are considered positive clinical outcomes that foster recovery rate of the hospitalised children. Hence, the garden can be viewed as an environmental intervention in enhancing the healing process of ill children in hospital environment. 2003-05-08 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nd http://eprints.utm.my/561/1/HEALING_LANDSCAPES.pdf Said, Ismail (2003) Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children. In: Proceedings KUSTEM 2nd Annual Seminar on Sustainability Science and Management, Evironment Detente: Quo Vadis Ecological Economics and Sciences, 6-7 May 2003, Kemaman, Terengganu. |
| spellingShingle | GV Recreation Leisure Said, Ismail Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title | Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title_full | Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title_fullStr | Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title_short | Garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| title_sort | garden as an environmental intervention in healing process of hospitalised children |
| topic | GV Recreation Leisure |
| url | http://eprints.utm.my/561/ http://eprints.utm.my/561/1/HEALING_LANDSCAPES.pdf |