Hospital pedagogy: interventions in the pediatric unit from history accounting

Abstract

The child being hospitalized for a long period of time loses contact with their daily life, leaving school, playing, which may affect their psycho-emotional and social conditions. In order to alleviate such repercussions, several play activities can be developed during the hospitalization period, such as storytelling, for example. The purpose of this study was to structure and evaluate the development of an intervention proposal from the Storytelling for hospitalized pediatric patients. The study was carried out in the toy library of a Hospital in the interior of São Paulo, from 10 meetings, lasting 40 to 60 minutes, using a variety of playful resources and children’s stories. Fifty children of both sexes, aged between 1 and 13 years, participated in the study. The results pointed out that Hospital Pedagogy and, specifically, storytelling can bring contributions to the hospital and hospitalized children, facilitating the coping of the surgical process and hospitalization, as well as promoting an approximation with daily school life and learning.