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    Attractions to Fuel the Imagination: Reframing Understandings of the Role of Distraction Relative to Well-Being in the Pediatric Hospital
    McLaughlan, R ; Sadek, A ; Willis, J (SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2019-04)
    OBJECTIVE: Ulrich's (1991) definition of "positive distraction" includes that which "elicits positive feelings and holds attention," implying that the capacity of an environmental feature to hold attention is a necessary component. This article examines whether, in the context of a pediatric hospital, a distraction needs to "hold attention" to secure positive benefits for patient well-being. BACKGROUND: Data collected from 246 patients at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital (Australia) revealed a discrepancy between what children and young people told us they did, and valued, within the hospital, relative to the time they spent engaging in, or paying attention to, these same features. This motivated a closer interrogation of the relationship between well-being, distraction, and socialization within the pediatric context. METHOD: Data were collected using a mixed-methods approach that included 178 surveys, 43 drawings contributed by patients/siblings within the outpatient waiting room, 25 photo-elicitation interviews with patients, and 100 hr of spatial observations within public and waiting room spaces. This was supplemented by interviews with architects and hospital staff. CONCLUSIONS: The mechanism by which we have understood positive distraction to contribute to well-being within the pediatric hospital environment is more complex than existing models accept. Within this context, environmental features that can positively transform expectations of visiting the hospital-that can ignite the imagination and incite a desire to return-can offer significant benefits to well-being. This is particularly relevant in the context of absenteeism from outpatient appointments and in reducing patient resistance to future, or ongoing, treatments.
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    Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy
    Darian-Smith, K ; Willis, J ; Darian-Smith, K ; Willis, J (Routledge, 2017)
    Set around three interlinked themes – school buildings, school spaces and school cultures – this book argues that education is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and that those spaces are in turn influenced by ...
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    Contesting significance: the case of the modern Australian hospital 1930-1950
    WILLIS, J (Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2006)
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    Modern exchange: architectural networks
    WILLIS, J (The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2009)
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    The Community Can Do It! Planning for the New Civic Centre
    DARIAN-SMITH, K ; NICHOLS, D ; WILLIS, J ; Lewi, H ; Nichols, D (University of New South Wales Press, 2010)
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    Regenerating Communities: The 1970s and Beyond
    Lewi, H ; Nichols, D ; Goad, P ; Darian-Smith, K ; Willis, J ; Lewi, H ; Nichols, D (University of New South Wales Press, 2010)
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    Making the Modern Community
    Lewi, H ; Nichols, D ; Goad, P ; Willis, J ; Darian-Smith, K ; Lewi, H ; Nichols, D (University of New South Wales Press, 2010)
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    A Healthy Start: Buildings for Babies
    DARIAN-SMITH, K ; WILLIS, J ; Lewi, H ; Nichols, D (University of New South Wales Press, 2010)
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    Modern hospitals as historic places
    Logan, C ; Goad, P ; Willis, J (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010)