Intervention procedure applied to caregivers and patients related to communication in follow-up appointments in pediatric cancer
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https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v22i3.50913Keywords:
cancer in children, physician-patient relationship, pediatrics, psychotherapeutic intervention.Abstract
This paper aimed to analyze an intervention procedure, applied to caregivers and patients, about communication in follow-up appointments on childhood cancer. In this study, 15 child-caregiver dyads took part, and they were individually interviewed before medical visits in childhood cancer. During this pre-appointment interview, each dyad would list doubts, difficulties, demands, and issues to be discussed in the next appointment. These themes were registered in the pre-appointment protocol, attached to the child´s medical record, as a memo to the pediatrician in the following medical visit. Results show unbalanced amounts of listed items along the procedure, data that may be related to special demands regarding different treatment stages. The themes were focused on self-care, food and biological cancer aspects; there were doubts that, even when discussed in medical visits, remained in subsequent appointments. This study provides subsidies to other researches and interventions regarding communication in pediatric settings.
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