Crianças e doença crônica: a vida possível

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Maria Elizabeth Ribeiro dos
• Orientador(a): Santos, Luiz Antônio de Castro
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva
• Departamento: Centro Biomédico::Instituto de Medicina Social Hesio Cordeiro
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Criança; Doença crônica; Desenvolvimento emocional; Família; Relação médico-paciente-familiar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: child; Chronic illness; Emotional development; Family; Doctor-patient-family relationship
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/19568

This study debates the possibility of children who carry chronic physical pathologies being able to become emotionally healthy individuals as from an articulation among distintct paediatric inits, and a field study with family members and children. The field study was carried out in the Sistema Único de Saúde (governmental health care clinic) branches between the years of 1996-2000, through a qualitative-quantitative methodological approach. In the course of the research, 75 semi-structured surveys were conducted with family members and 30 others were conducted with children who carried chronic physical pathology. All surveys were registered on tape and undertaken a speech analysis and later, a quantififcation of predominant categories, being analysed in weekly meetings with the research crew. The results pointed towards the possibility of a healthy emotional development, as long as the environment conditions promote help; of wich the quality of service granted to children and family members in the health clinic branched would stand out.