CHILDHOOD CANCER: AN ASSESSMENT OF HOSPITALIZATION COPING STRATEGIES PROPOSAL
In order to diminish the negative effects of hospitalization, the child who hascancer needs to adapt herself/himself by using adequate coping strategies. Focused on the design of an assessment tool for the hospitalization copingstrategies, 28 children (6 to 12) registered on the Oncology Service fro...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/6720 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6720 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | estratégias de enfrentamento hospitalização infantil câncer infantil coping strategies children hospitalization cancer in children |
| Sumario: | In order to diminish the negative effects of hospitalization, the child who hascancer needs to adapt herself/himself by using adequate coping strategies. Focused on the design of an assessment tool for the hospitalization copingstrategies, 28 children (6 to 12) registered on the Oncology Service from apublic hospital in Vitória, Espírito Santo, were submitted to the followinginstruments: coping Hospitalization Assessment Instrument, with 41 pictures,divided by sets: Set A: Facing hospitalization and Set B: Playing in thehospital. The instrument adequacy results have shown a percentage of88.4% e 94.6% of adequacy in the pictures from Set A and Set B, respectively.The instrument responses results have revealed a larger tendency to theoptimistic pattern of coping answers (play, talk, take medicine and pray),than to the non-optimistic (hide, fight, blame yourself, blackmail). Theinstrument was adequate to the psychological comprehension and attendancefor the hospitalized children. |
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