Planned recreation in pediatric unit waiting room: behavioral effects

Humanize the assistance to the hospitalized children and adolescents means to minimize the sufferings provided by disease and the typical stressing events of hospital experience. This study had as goal the effects investigation of a recreation program planned in a pediatric oncology unit waiting roo...

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Autores: Costa Junior, Áderson Luiz, Coutinho, Sílvia Maria Gonçalves, Ferreira, Rejane Soares
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repositorio:Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/6383
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.usp.br/paideia/article/view/6383
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:recreação planejada
brincar
sala de espera hospitalar
psicologia pediátrica
planned recreation
play
hospital waiting room
pediatric psychology
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Sumario:Humanize the assistance to the hospitalized children and adolescents means to minimize the sufferings provided by disease and the typical stressing events of hospital experience. This study had as goal the effects investigation of a recreation program planned in a pediatric oncology unit waiting room about the children and adolescents behavioral repertoire. The proposed jokes referred to the disease and to the treatment. They took part 91 children and adolescents, exposed to cancer treatment, divided into three degree of age: Preschool, School and Teenager. The developed play materials aimed board the hospitable thematic. The planned recreation enabled a collaborative behaviors repertoire enlargement and of interaction, as well as a better adaptation to the adverse terms imposed by the hospitable environment and treatment events. The planned recreation can constitute a psychology systematic intervention activity, useful for the comprehension of how children and adolescent coping the disease and the treatment.