Restorative Environment: Caregivers Evaluation of Hosptitalized Childrens Preference Towards Garden

RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT: CAREGIVERS’ EVALUATION ON HOSPITALIZSED CHILDREN’S PREFERENCE TOWARDS GARDEN VERSUS WARD IN MALAYSIAN HOSPITALS Ismail Said Mohd Sarofil Abu Bakar Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment Universiti... More

RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT: CAREGIVERS’ EVALUATION ON HOSPITALIZSED CHILDREN’S PREFERENCE TOWARDS GARDEN VERSUS WARD IN MALAYSIAN HOSPITALS Ismail Said Mohd Sarofil Abu Bakar Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Sekudai, Johor, Malaysia b-ismail@utm. my Proceedings of the 6 th International Symposium for Environment-Behavior Studies EBRA, Tianjin, China, Oct. 22-25, 2004 Abstract Hospitalization often erodes the feelings of toddlers and young children that cause regressive behaviors and stress resulting to reduced cognitive performance, helplessness, restlessness, crying, anxiety, and elevated blood pressure. Having the children experiencing a garden setting, either in passive or active mode, can arouse their senses that nurture their inductive and deductive, motor-impulses development and reflective thinking capabilities and thus reduce the stress that would foster their recovery. This study investigates the impact of Less