Verbal Instructions and the Follow of Medical Recommendations for Atopic Dermatitis Treatment in Childhood

Authors

  • Robson Zazula Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana (UNILA)
  • Márcia Cristina Caserta Gon Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v18i2.29589

Keywords:

atopic dermatitis, instructions, medical treatment, caregiver-child interaction

Abstract

The atopic dermatitis is a skin chronic disease with unknown etiology and high incidence in childhood. Following medical recommendations is an indispensable behavior to the disease control. This behavior can be understood as arule-governedbehavior process and the instructions as an important variable. The aim of this study is to present and discuss the instruction, as an antecedent variable that controls the follow of recommendations’ behavior by pediatric patients. This control was discussed in the interactions between children and their caregivers, through the description of different types of instructions and their consequences. Physical facilities and biological conditions, the social control and the role of reinforcement histories were described as variables that can change the control of instructions.

 

Author Biographies

Robson Zazula, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana (UNILA)

Graduado em Psicologia e Mestre em Análise do Comportamento pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Paraná). Docente do curso de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana (UNILA)

Márcia Cristina Caserta Gon, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Doutora em Psicobiologia pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professora Associada do Departamento de Psicologia Geral e Análise do Comportamento da Universidade Estadual de Londrina. 

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Zazula, R., & Caserta Gon, M. C. (2014). Verbal Instructions and the Follow of Medical Recommendations for Atopic Dermatitis Treatment in Childhood. Interação Em Psicologia, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v18i2.29589

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Theoretical or Historical Studies

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