2014
DOI: 10.1590/0104-07072014000710013
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Stepping into a new world: the meaning of sicken for the child with cancer

Abstract: This is a qualitative study with the aim to understand the meaning of experiencing illness for a child with cancer. The thematic drawing-story was used, with eight children aged between 6 and 12 years old, from February to May of 2012. The material was analyzed according to the theoretical and analytical framework of the French Discourse Analysis line, which seeks to understand the socio-historical processes of meaning production. The study revealed that, for the child with cancer, the disease is found out in … Show more

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“…In their hospitalization, their dreams and projects are broken and replaced with feelings of loss. 25 It is stressed that continued losses can trigger anxiety and depression in the child with cancer. 26 The literature emphasizes that in addition to bearing the stigma of cancer, the child fails to experience situations that are important for their human development, such as social interaction with friends and teachers at school.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their hospitalization, their dreams and projects are broken and replaced with feelings of loss. 25 It is stressed that continued losses can trigger anxiety and depression in the child with cancer. 26 The literature emphasizes that in addition to bearing the stigma of cancer, the child fails to experience situations that are important for their human development, such as social interaction with friends and teachers at school.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, these feelings provoke fear regarding the uncertain and obscure future normally permeated by distress, which can entail harm to the child's well-being. 2,12 Once they have entered the world of oncological treatment, the children come to understand cancer as a disease which demands specific care and procedures, and they recognize the distressing trajectory which they pass along -and, as a consequence, they experience the pain, inconvenience and suffering which result from this therapy. [Picking up a nasogastric catheter] This is for putting in your nose.…”
Section: ] Aunty! Let´s Hurt the Baby? Let´s Do This One Shall We mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The disease entails loss of the child's liberty, her day-to-day is interrupted, and the pleasures of childhood come to be substituted by a new context. 2,5,12 Although few in number, there were times in which the child showed a wish to relive situations of family routine, which evidences that the illness, despite having an impact, is not capable of neutralizing the child's history prior to the diagnosis of cancer.…”
Section: Remembering the World Without The Diseasementioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 The changes and resulting impacts due to cancer deserve special attention from health professionals and family members, given that the child must receive full care and is facing a shocking and frightening condition, who will go and live together with unknown people and services. 9 It is in this context that the application of music in care practices is recommended, such as care strategies that provide cognitive, sensory and motor stimulation, helping children and adolescents effectively cope with stressors and the disease process. Music and its expressions facilitate a playful environment, moments of relaxation and joy, softening the pain and suffering of hospitalized children and adolescents.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%