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Guides or guidelines for interacting and playing with medical complex children: a qualitative documentary research
Jéssica Renata Bastos Depianti1,2, Thaís Guilherme Pereira Pimentel1,3, Fernanda Borges Pessanha1,3
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Insights
Play and interaction are vital for children with special health care needs. Recommended activities focus on stimulating potential, adult-child interaction, and sensory engagement for better care outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Developmental Psychology
- Health Sciences
Background:
- Children with special health care needs often require specialized interventions.
- Play and interaction are recognized as crucial for child development and well-being.
- Clinical guidelines increasingly emphasize holistic approaches to care for these children.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify play and interaction strategies recommended in clinical guidelines for children with special health care needs.
- To analyze applicable play and interaction activities for children with complex care requirements.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative documentary research using clinical guidelines and protocols.
- Searched Google for relevant terms in English and Portuguese.
- Applied thematic analysis to extracted information.
Main Results:
- Nine relevant documents were analyzed.
- Identified key activities: stimulating potential, adult-child interaction, and sensory stimulation (touch, sight, hearing).
- These activities are applicable in various care contexts by professionals and caregivers.
Conclusions:
- Interaction and play significantly promote adult-child bonding.
- These activities are integral to stimulating and life-affirming complex care for children.
- Play-based interventions can enhance the quality of life for children with special health care needs.
Objectives:
to identify content on play and interaction with children with special health care needs recommended in clinical guidelines; analyze play and interaction activities applicable to children with special health care needs and complex care requirements.
Method:
qualitative documentary research based on guides, protocols, or guidelines on playing and interacting with children with special and living with complex care. Search terms in English (guidelines, playing OR play, complex needs, OR chronic disease) and in Portuguese ( guia, brincar ou brincadeiras, condições crônicas ) on the first ten pages of_Google Search ® . Thematic analysis was applied to the information extracted from the documents.
Results:
a total of nine documents with similar content were grouped into units of analysis, keeping only the interacting and playing activities applicable to children with special health care needs and living with complex care requirements, namely stimulation of potential, stimulation of adult-child interaction, and stimulation of the senses (touch, sight, and hearing), to be carried out by health professionals and family caregivers in the different care contexts.
Conclusion:
interaction and play are potential promoters of adult-child interaction, with application in the stimulating and life-delivering complex care for children.
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