Abstract

Background: In general a pleasant environment has a positive effect on the occupant’s feeling of well-being and this can affect patient recovery and staff performance. Therefore lighting, colour design, aroma and good behaviour of doctors are very essential. Based on these ideas we conducted a study in our hospital premises as to how our five senses can help
to conceptualise a dermatology operation theatre.
Method: The study was carried out in the Department of Dermatology, Employees State Insurance – Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (ESI-PGIMSR), Basaidarapur, New Delhi. It was a cross sectional study.120 was the sample size which was divided in to 3 groups of doctors, nurses and patients of 40 each. All cases were evaluated using case record proforma comprising of their demographic profile and 21 questions which was prevalidated. These questions were based on five senses of human body (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).
Results: In choosing colour of wall paint, 60% doctors opted white and 32.5% yellow. 53.3% selected white in total followed by yellow (21.7%) followed by blue (15.8%) and vibrant colour (9.2%). While choosing colour of linen (bed sheets) most doctors chose green colour (55%). All (100%) preferred provision of windows/ ventilator in OT for natural light. Hearing calming words by doctors before surgery was appreciated by all nurses and patients (100%).
Conclusion: Five senses of human body play an important role while conceptualising the operation theatre.

Keywords

five senses, colour psychology, dermatology operation theatre, doctor’s behaviour, clinical skills, ventilator,operation theatre