Do horror ao amor: compreendendo o significado de estar hospitalizado no cotidiano de crianças e adolescentes com doenças crônicas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This study is about a Caring Convergent Research of qualitative approach, with the general aim of understanding the meaning of being hospitalized in the daily lives of children and teenagers with chronic diseases. Symbolic Interactionism was the theoretical referential that supported the pathway of research developed during the second semester of 2008, at Joana de Gusmao children.s Hospital, in Florianopolis . SC. Participants were a child with leukaemia and three teenagers, two with chronic kidney failure and one with osteogenesis imperfecta, living the daily life of the chronic disease and hospitalization. Data collection was done by an interaction process in nursing, making use of participant observation, based on sensitive hearing and child drawing. During the interaction process it was reinforced that the conception that drawings are not just an effective strategic that allows children and teenager.s expressivity in relation to lived interactions in their daily hospitalization lives, but also it allows for pleasant moments to the patients, allowing the expression of their feeling, their creativity and imagination, where they can reflect on their health-disease situation and hospitalization in a sensible manner. Analysis of data was done in four processes: apprehension, synthesis, theorization and transference. By analysing resulting meanings, the wavelength of these was perceived as well as the sensible presumptions and concepts presented by the Symbolic Interactionism, as well as aspects involving behaviour and answers of children and teenagers upon the daily life of chronic diseases and hospitalization. In a way that being hospitalized means: being sick, away from home, exposed to painful procedures, feeling sad, suffering, being nervous, wanting to cry and to answer aggressively at some times, and at the same time, it means having possibilities of treatment and cure, being cared by nurses, doctors and other professionals and by family members, making new friends, being in reciprocity with nature and experiencing pleasant experiences through care, passion, love, happiness and games. From the meanings found, it was prominent the ability of the child and teenagers in regrouping these and changing them under the view of the situation they are inserted into, all of that, expressed by their beautiful drawings, permeated by meanings and lessons for life.

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hospitalização criancas - assistencia hospitalar enfermagem pediatrica adolescentes - assistencia hospitalar enfermagem pediatrica doencas cronicas - tratamento

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