Abstract:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been
identified as one of the most commonly occurring mental
illnesses in combatants. This study was conducted to
determine the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder among war veterans in the Sri Lankan military
hospitals. In accord, the following research presented
seeks to increase the awareness of this condition among
those war casualties so that appropriate treatment choices
could be made to address them hoping to come into
conclusion of design considerations in order to create
rehabilitation centre for those combatants of war. In the
current condition, the form of care-giving for patients
suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is done in
wards at conventional military hospitals. But, there lies a
need to pay greater attention to the extant literature
regarding the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of various
interventions regarding on tackling PTSD. This study
reviews a far greater area regarding PTSD, veterans,
interventions, treatment, counselling, job training and
medication. This assist to Increase the awareness of the
existing state of information which could be lead for better
targeting of resources and better health outcomes.
Particularly, the aim focuses on the possibility of creating
a humanizing design framework that may entirely
contribute to the healing process for the soldiers suffering
from PTSD. Research case studies were conducted on three
Military hospitals in Sri Lanka which were chosen and
analysed to draw into conclusions. Case studies are
analysed in terms of their architecture, planning and
environmental engineering. The findings are a
phenomenon of some kind, which emerges in a limited
context and determined in social, architectural terms.
