Sounds of Sleep (08-05-10)
Solet and her team have investigated the noise levels that can be experienced by hospital patients during the night.
Solet and her team have investigated the noise levels that can be experienced by hospital patients during the night.
Millions of people listen to background music every day in open or cubicle style work environments to avoid being distracted from professional tasks.
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
Spoken language is inherently distracting.
A team of Finnish researchers has investigated the influence of intelligible speech on cognitive performance.
The ways in which music and nature impact patients can be caught in the conflict between technological and natural therapeutic interventions. This article was originally published in 2009.
The presence of complex vocal music, similar to the songs found in everyday settings and on popular radio stations, degrades performance of complex cognitive tasks as significantly as noise of the same volume.
As Richardson and her colleagues describe, “Sleep is essential for human survival and sleep deprivation is detrimental to health and well being.”
Deborah Burnett, writing on the Healthcare Design blog, encourages other healthcare designers to include sound systems in all of the environments they develop because research evidence now very clearly indicates the value of having patients listen to music.
Music in cardiac care environments is a hit.