RATIONALE:
Adolescents with cancer face very complex problems and have special needs due to the intense suffering they experience at a critical stage of their development. Several studies have highlighted the importance of health professionals understanding the meaning of the experience and how adolescents adjust and adapt to the evolution and treatment of the disease. This knowledge will facilitate the sensitivity and relational skills necessary for a more positive care intervention in the face of these patients' experiences.
The studies carried out on the subjective experiences and adaptation to the disease and to the new life circumstances of adolescents with cancer correspond, for the most part, to quantitative, cross-sectional studies using structured instruments that tend to modulate the adolescents' responses and, as a result, present a narrow and static view of these phenomena.
OBJECTIVES:
To develop a data-based theory comprehending the adaptive transition processes and experiences of adolescents with oncohematologic diseases during treatment.
- To characterize the adolescents' experiences and conceptions of the disease during treatment;
- To identify how these adolescents cope with the disease, its manifestations and treatments;
- To analyze the transition processes of these adolescents to states of greater adaptation, identifying conditions that facilitate and inhibit these transitions and how they value and integrate adaptive changes.
TYPE OF STUDY:
Qualitative research: Grounded Theory.
POPULATION:
Adolescents (12-18 years) undergoing treatment for oncohematologic diseases;
Adolescents who completed treatment for oncohematologic diseases less than 2 years ago.
Awaiting information from the PI
Em desenvolvimento
MANAGEMENT OF PAIN AND SUFFERING IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Self-care and health-disease