CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCE ON HOSPITALIZATION: SOCIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD APPROACH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v25i0.71321Keywords:
Pediatric Nursing, Child Care, Child Health, Qualitative research, Hospitalized Child.Abstract
Objective: to gain insight into the experience of hospitalization from the children’s perspective.
Methods: Qualitative study with 16 hospitalized children conducted between March and July 2018. Individual interviews and notes from the field diary were used for data collection. The narratives were coded and grouped by similarity, and content analysis was used. The study was carried out in a pediatric unit of a general hospital from Distrito Federal.
Results: Three themes that expressed children’s knowledge about the understanding of the disease, the daily routine of hospitalization, the experience related to the procedures undergone by the children and the recognition of the importance of the activities developed in the playroom emerged.
Conclusion: The children described an environment that differs from their family routine and with several stressors inherent to hospital care. Thus, reflections on the performance of health professionals can be made and the scope of potential interventions can be maximized, from the perspective of comprehensive care centered on the children and their families.
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