The Effect of Interior Color for Patients' Room on the Psychological Comfort for Patients of Oncology Medical Centers (Case Study Patients' Room of Oncology Center in Mansoura University).

Document Type : Research Studies

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1 Assistant Professor., Architectural Engineering Department., Faculty of Engineering., El-Mansoura University., Mansoura., Egypt.

2 Professor of Architectural Engineering Department., Faculty of Engineering., El-Mansoura University., Mansoura., Egypt.

Abstract

The research aims to provide placement to treat the colors and its uses in the interior design of patient rooms in Oncology Medical Centers in order to achieve psychological comfort within these spaces for patients, because the color is playing vital role in the interior design and occupies an important place in all aspects of our activities, the impact of the colors on us in the space will reflect on the sense of the patient sensory and muscle. So the colors are chosen in a space according to several considerations have been clarified by research. 
The research proved its claim that colors affect a strong influence and direct the psychological comfort of patients in their rooms in oncology centers and that is through a theoretical study where the research reviews the importance of color and use it and understand its impact on the space, the philosophy of the use of color through the attributes and their meanings, the relationship between color and light, function of the colors in interior design, and the effect of color on human behavior, also through the analytical study of patient rooms in MD Anderson Cancer Center in America and apply them to patient rooms in Oncology Center, Mansoura University. The research at the end makes recommendations to enable the optimal use of colors in the interior spaces in Oncology Medical Centers. 

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MEJ- Mansoura Engineering Journal
Volume 36, Issue 4
December 2011
Pages 1-15

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