SimTigrate Design Lab, 1372Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
6865Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
HERD. 2021 Apr;14(2):234-253. doi: 10.1177/1937586720972078. Epub 2020 Nov 24.
This study explores how aspects of lighting in patient rooms are experienced and evaluated by nurses while performing simulated work under various lighting conditions. The lighting conditions studied represent design standards consistent with different environments of care-traditional, contemporary, and future.
Recent advances in lighting research and technology create opportunities to use lighting in hospital rooms to improve everyday experience and provide researchers with opportunities to explore a new set of research questions about the effects of lighting on patients, guests, and staff. This study focuses on the experience of nurses delivering simulated patient care.
Perceptions of each of the 13 lighting conditions were evaluated by nurses using rating scales for difficulty of task completion, comfort, intensity, appropriateness of the lighting color, and naturalness of the lighting during the task. The nurses' ratings were analyzed alongside qualitative reflections to provide insight into their responses.
Significant differences were found for several a priori hypotheses. Interesting findings provide insight into lighting to support circadian synchronization, lighting at night, the distribution of light in the patient room and the use of multiple lighting zones, and the use of colored lighting.
The results of this study provide insight into potential benefits and concerns of these new features for patient room lighting systems and reveal gaps in the existing evidence base that can inform future investigations.
本研究探讨了护士在模拟各种照明条件下进行工作时，如何体验和评估病房内照明的各个方面。所研究的照明条件代表了与不同护理环境一致的设计标准——传统、现代和未来。
照明研究和技术的最新进展为在医院病房中使用照明以改善日常体验创造了机会，并为研究人员提供了探索一系列关于照明对患者、访客和员工影响的新研究问题的机会。本研究重点关注护士提供模拟患者护理时的体验。
护士使用完成任务的难度、舒适度、强度、照明颜色的适宜性和任务期间照明的自然性等评分量表来评估这 13 种照明条件的每一种。对护士的评分进行了分析，并结合定性反思，以深入了解他们的反应。
对于几个事先假设，发现了显著差异。有趣的发现为支持昼夜节律同步的照明、夜间照明、患者房间内光线分布以及使用多个照明区域和彩色照明提供了深入了解。
本研究的结果提供了对这些新的病房照明系统功能的潜在益处和关注点的深入了解，并揭示了现有证据基础中的差距，可为未来的研究提供信息。
