The child with cancer and the magnitude of their relationship with playing during oncopediatric hospitalization

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1592402219074

• Palavras-chave: Occupational Therapy, Play, Hospitals, Neoplasms, Playfulness.

• Keywords: Occupational Therapy, Play, Hospitals, Neoplasms, Playfulness.

• Abstract:

  Introduction: Cancer is a neoplasm that, among children and adolescents, travels more quickly towards the weakening of a healthy organism. The hospitalization of children with cancer awakens in the discontinuation of daily life and in the modification of their development, due, among others, to the decrease in the stimulation of neuropsychomotor components in an unknown environment. Playing is the main occupation of children and responsible for their representation of being in the world. Given its use in promoting biopsychosocial aspects of quality of life, Occupational Therapy and its performance in Pediatric Oncology becomes fundamental during the rehabilitation process, from which the present study will seek to emphasize, in play, the resignification of children's activities in illness during their hospital stay. Objective: To investigate the influence of playing on the child development of children undergoing cancer treatment in the hospital care routine. Method: This is a systematic literature review study, which used the platforms American Journal of Occupational Therapy, BVS, Cadernos de Terapia Ocupacional, PubMed, REVISBRATO, Revista de Terapia Ocupacional da USP and SciELO. Results/Discussion: In order to present the theme in a consistent line of reasoning, 6 major thematic divisions were listed for exposure, namely: play, discontinuity of the routine of being a child, breadth of occupational therapeutic care, getting sick in the hospital, environment in the hospital and particularities of child development in the hospital. Conclusion: Child development is interfered with by the disruption of daily life during the child's stay in the hospital, structured and unstructured play is an indispensable therapeutic resource for health professionals involved in the treatment of children with cancer and the occupational therapist is an essential professional in the Pediatric Oncology team, in view of their knowledge congruent with a biopsychosocial, humanized and comprehensive intervention in the hospital context.

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