Hospital is one of the areas that affect the mental and psychological conditions of the children, and the poor design of these environments may affect physical and psychological health. This study investigated the effect of a typical Dish Garden as a surrogate for green spaces in improving the physical and neuropsychological characteristics of hospitalized children. For this purpose, 54 hospitalized children were randomly divided into intervention (experimental) and control groups. The children in the experimental group were placed in a pre-designed room with a Dish Garden for 72 hours, and the control group did not receive any intervention. In this research, a pre-test and post-test design were applied. The results showed that the group exposed to the Dish Garden was significantly healthier than the control group in terms of physical and neuropsychological factors. The recorded vital signs, including systolic and diastolic blood pressures, heart, and respiration rates decreased to normal rates in the experimental group. The neuropsychological indices in the experimental group included the emotional index (lack of fear, happiness, and relaxation), the cognitive index (compatibility and attention), and the non-symptom index (no anxiety and lack of depression). The Dish Garden enhanced physical and neuropsychological health of the children through visual distraction. Therefore, using Dish Gardens can be suggested as low-budget and low-risk tools to create favourable environments in children\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s hospitals.

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