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- Title
Hospitalized child and teenager with chronic diseases: feelings about death.
- Authors
de Moura, Flávia Moura; Costa Junior, Áderson Luiz; de Amorim Silva, Maria Elizabete; Pereira da Silva Reichert, Altamira; Collet, Neusa
- Abstract
Objective. Analyze the feelings of hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic diseases towards death. Methodology. Qualitative research, with four children and one teenager with chronic diseases, aged between 11 and 13 years old, who were admitted at a teaching hospital in Brazil, in the period from January to March 2009. In-depth interviews were carried out using a ludic material for therapeutic purposes, named "As a guest in the hospital". The empirical material was submitted to thematic analysis. Results. Two mains meanings were obtained: Feelings of hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic diseases dealing with the death of the other; and children and adolescents with chronic diseases and the fear of their own deaths. Hospitalization makes children and adolescents come across the death of other sick people, arousing feelings of sadness, consternation, anxiety, making the fear of their own death become a threat. Conclusion. The health team needs to be attentive to the feelings of hospitalized children and adolescents facing death so that they can get the demands, minimizing fears and anguish.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHRONICALLY ill patient care; HOSPITAL care of children; TEACHING hospitals; HOSPITALS; SADNESS; CHRONIC diseases &; psychology; DEATH &; psychology; STATISTICAL sampling; QUALITATIVE research; ADOLESCENCE; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Investigacion & Educacion en Enfermeria, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 3, p565
- ISSN
0120-5307
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17533/udea.iee.v33n3a21