"Câncer infantil e resiliência: investigação fenomenológica dos mecanismos de proteção na díade mãe-criança". / Childhood cancer and resilience: phenomenologic investigation of the protection mechanisms in the mother-child dyad.

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2006

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The purpose of this research is to understand what mothers and children perceive, using their experience with cancer, which contributed for confronting the situation involving disease, treatment and hospitalization. The method that was applied is the existential-phenomenology. The research was developed in the “Survivors Clinic” of the Pediatric Oncology Service of the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto – Universidade de São Paulo and rely on the collaboration of nine children form 6 to 11 years old with several diagnostics and with their respective mothers. An interview was done with each mother using the open question “How was your child’s treatment?” and with each child “What do you remember about your treatment?”. The analysis of the interviews, that was made by following the steps proposed by Martins, Bicudo (1989) and Valle (1997), exposed three main thematic categories of the mothers’ speech: the trajectory of the disease and the treatment, which is compatible with the literature; conditions that improve the coping with the disease – faith in God, multi-disciplinary staff, family, friends, municipal entities, the other mothers, the play and the teachers’ help; the nowadays – out of treatment. The children’s speeches also were grouped into three thematic categories: the trajectory of the disease and treatment; situations that improved the coping with the disease – nuclear and extended family, multi-disciplinary staff, volunteers and teachers; the nowadays – out of treatment. Some ideas of the philosopher Martin Heidegger were used as a theoretical direction. It was concluded that mothers and children faced with risk mechanism (as the disease) used protection mechanisms (as the faith and the playing beyond other resources as the social support – the staff, the volunteers, the family the family and the other mothers who was facing the same situation). Phenomenologically, mothers and children coped with the disease situation being-with the others, establishing authentic relations of care with the others and among them (mothers and children). These relations was only possible when mother and children were complete in the relation, i.e., they were being-with the others truly, because this is the only way that a person can perceive the real necessities of the others and can help effectively.

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resiliência mecanismos de proteção protection mechanisms fenomenologia câncer infantil resilience childhood cancer phenomenology

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