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Hospitalized children's experience of a Fairy Garden in Northern Thailand
Pamela van der Riet1, Chaweewan Jitsacorn2, Peter Thursby3
1School of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty of Health and Medicine The University of Newcastle (UoN) Newcastle NSW Australia.
Aim:
To explore through draw, observation and talk hospitalized children's experience of a Fairy Garden in Northern Thailand.
Design:
A participatory visual arts method of draw, observations and talk along with Clandinin's narrative inquiry framework of three-dimensional space (sociality, temporality and place).
Methods:
This study was conducted in a paediatric ward in a large tertiary hospital in Northern Thailand over 12 months (July 2017-2018). A purposive sample of 17 hospitalized children aged between 4 and 13 years participated in drawings and face-to-face interviews. The study adhered to the COREQ checklist for qualitative research (see Supplementary File S1).
Results:
The analysis resulted in five interrelated threads: (1) representations of the illness experience; (2) imagination and fantasy; (3) connection to place, family and home; (4) moments of social representations of play; and (5) happiness and enjoyment.
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