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Preparing the return home of the children with cancer
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Children with oncologic disease, between treatments, if there are no complications,
return home until the next treatment. Planning the discharge is essential
to promote a continuity of cares at home. An adequate preparation for discharge
leads to a better management of collateral e+ects and to a minor risk of rehospitalisation.
The goals of this study were: to identify the preparation for discharge
performed to the parents / caregivers of children / adolescents with cancer submitted
to chemotherapy; to identify the strategies of preparation for discharge.
A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and transversal study was developed. After
the return home, 11 parents of children with cancer submitted to chemotherapy
treatment, participated in the study. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview
and its treatment made using content analyses, based on Bardin. From the
data analyses emerged the domain The Return Home that aggregates the category
Preparation for Discharge and its subcategories: Oral Information, Written Information,
Comprehensibility of the Information and Information Content. The return
home is simultaneously a desired and feared moment. Parents and children return
to their environment, but face di<culties in daily life activities, due to the fear that
is provoked by the child’s vulnerability. This way, the return home should be prepared
early and adequate to the singular context of each family. Oral information
should be reinforced by written information, given the di<culty to process it. The
comprehensibility and the content of information are peremptory components in
the preparation for discharge.
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Keywords
Neoplasms Parents Child Nursing
Citation
Fernandes Pires RA, Da Silva Reis Dos Santos Ferreira M, Da Assunção Santos Pinto C. Preparing the return home of the children with cancer. Suplemento Digital Rev ROL Enferm 2018; 41(11-12)