IMPACTO DO DIAGNÓSTICO DO CÂNCER INFANTIL NA FAMÍLIA: ASPECTOS SOCIAIS

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.07820040219

• Palavras-chave: Câncer Infantil, Repercussões do Câncer na Família, Enfrentamento, Impactos Biopsicossociais.

• Keywords: Childhood Cancer. Family. Caregivers. Neoplasms.

• Abstract:

  Towards the increasing incidence

  of children neoplasms, this research had the

  intention to investigate the biopsychosocial

  impacts among families experiencing cancer

  detection as well its evolution. To achieve this,

  were addressed questions regarding how the diagnosis of the illness is given, which were the family´s major expectations towards the

  information and the most common reactions between the caregivers during the cancer

  treatment. Therefore was developed a prospective study of transversal character with

  30 families, in addition, from this non representative and randomly distributed sample

  of people with whom was applied the Pediatric Inventory for Parents – PIP (Brazilian

  version Inventário Pediátrico para Familiares – IPF), were discovered that most of

  the time those parents picture the worst consequences that this disease could bring,

  filling themselves with anxiety, anguish plus physical and mental stress, considered

  all risk factors for organic also psychological pathologies. Furthermore, the economic

  consequences were quite relevant, by means of the appliance of the sociodemographic

  characterization quiz, was verified that 80% of the interviewees had to abandon their

  jobs to fully dedicate of taking care of their children, leaving behind their social and

  recreation activities as well. Thereby, the cancer diagnosis causes a negative impact

  to the family and mainly to the caregiver, however to help with that, it’s essential an

  unabridged assistance from a multidisciplinary health team, since the way that the

  family faces the illness directly induces in how the child´s treatment will advance. 

• Número de páginas: 15