Integrative review identifies biophilic design benefits for mental health in patients and healthcare staff, suggesting improvements in hospital environments.
Hospitalization is a difficult process for people to cope with, as their autonomy is limited, their physical health deteriorates and their projects are threatened, generating emotional instability, such as feelings of anguish, anxiety and increased stress. Biophilic design is a technique that can be used by architecture in these scenarios, seeking to create humanized, balanced environments with greater contact with nature, aimed at the well-being of users. This study aims to identify the effects of using biophilia in hospital environments, considering the mental health of the patient-family-staff triad. To this end, an integrative review of the national and international literature was carried out in the SciELO, BDTD, CAPES databases and in the Google Scholar virtual library, from 2015 to 2024. After applying the exclusion and inclusion criteria, 12 articles were selected to be read in full, and of these, 10 articles that responded directly to the objective were included in the study. The results show that the application of biophilic design in hospital environments helps to reduce stress, anguish, anxiety, exhaustion and provides a balance in the biopsychosocial health of patients, families and healthcare staff. Biophilia provides positive experiences during hospitalization, through man's contact with nature, creating environments that restore health and promote well-being. It is essential that scholars in the field continue to explore the benefits of man's relationship with the environment, thus elaborating studies and interventions with the application of biophilic design in other spaces of permanence, such as homes, industries, clinics, etc.
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Rodrigues et al. (2025) studied this question.