ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTERAPY IN CHILDREN: ACCOMPANYINGS’ KNOWLEDGE

Authors

  • Izabel Barros de Arruda
  • Janaina Maria dos Santos Francisco de Paula
  • Rêneis Paulo Lima da Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16186

Keywords:

Criança, Quimioterapia, Enfermagem, Educação em saúde, Aprendizagem, Child, Drug therapy, Nursing, Health education, Learning, Niño, Enfermería, Educación en salud, Aprendizaje

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the knowledge of children accompanying ones about adverse effects of
chemotherapy. This descriptive study evaluated the knowledge of twenty-five children accompanying ones about
chemotherapy in children submitted to this procedure. Forms had been applied in an informal interview between July and
August of 2005 in a University Hospital in Recife-PE. Three interviewees told that they had some information in the
beginning of the treatment while others affirmed not to have the necessary information about it. Interviewees related the
following adverse effects: fatigue, anorexy, nausea, loss of weight, pain and alopecia. In spite of the majority of the stories
pointed the main adverse effects of the therapy, to develop an explaining pamphlet about chemotherapy was a good
strategy to give right information.

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de Arruda, I. B., de Paula, J. M. dos S. F., & da Silva, R. P. L. (2009). ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTERAPY IN CHILDREN: ACCOMPANYINGS’ KNOWLEDGE. Cogitare Enfermagem, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16186

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2009)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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