Professor Amir’s building-health research informing a model-of-care rationale

Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatry Services · Mason FIDSS Approach

At a glance

Role: Service-model environmental rationale
Host: Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatry Services · Mason FIDSS Approach
Publication: The Development of a Forensic Intellectual Disability Model of Care: Synergy to Achieve Equity
Contribution: Service-model environmental rationale
Evidence: 16 February 2023 · Environment section, printed page 8 · Reference page 10

The story

Research reaching practice

Professor Amir’s sick-building research is cited in the environmental rationale for the Mason FIDSS model of care developed for Auckland’s secure forensic intellectual disability service.

How the research was used

The model-development account uses Professor Amir’s paper when explaining how harmful building conditions can affect health and wellbeing. This brings architectural research into the discussion of the care environment alongside the service’s other principles and goals.

The documented contribution

16 February 2023 · Environment section, printed page 8 · Reference page 10. A documented contribution to the model’s environmental rationale. No measured clinical improvement, implemented building redesign or authorship of the clinical model is attributed to Professor Amir.

Research and coauthor credit

Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough? — Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; Husam AlWaer; Hossein Omrany; Ali Ghaffarianhoseini; Chaham Alalouch; Derek Clements-Croome; John Tookey. DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2018.1461060

Evidence