The effect of color of medical buildings in reducing stress and length of treatment (Case study: Kowsar Hospital, Shiraz)

A patient is someone who has mental or physical discomfort or both. A hospital is a place where a patient goes for diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the graphic effect of the hospital environment on the patient is very important. Color is one of the influential components in hospital graphics. Color therapy is an old art. In the past, people in India and China had temples instead of hospitals where patients were treated with color therapy. In this study, first, the study of color and stress and the different effects of color on humans as important variables and components of the environmental graphics of medical buildings, then by determining the patient's condition and needs, the factors affecting the choice of color and effects are investigated. It reduces stress and the length of treatment of the patient. The present study is a correlational research and in terms of the purpose of finding the relationship between the effect of color of therapeutic buildings and stress and the length of treatment of the patient, is a practical research. The research method, survey method and data collection tool is a combination of standard questionnaire for measuring stress (dass-21) and color questionnaire prepared by the author. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha with a value of 0.897. The questionnaire was analyzed with SPSS 26 software.