Proposta de prática educativa em saúde bucal no contexto da hemato-oncologia nos cuidados paliativos infanto-juvenil

Abstract

Introduction: Palliative care provides symptom relief and better quality of life for patients and their families. The multiprofessional team must be able to treat the patient in order to establish an adequate treatment and an interdisciplinary planning. Thus, due to the complexity in the context of child and adolescent cancer care, the improvement of professionals was sought to ensure care and comfort. As well as bring specificities of dentistry in this context. Objective: It focuses on identifying and analyzing the challenges faced by the multidisciplinary team in the face of the needs of dental care in the context of child and adolescent oncology. Methodology: It is characterized as an action-research with a qualitative approach, of the exploratory type, which was developed in an oncology unit, providing care for children and adolescents, in a university hospital in the southern region of Brazil. Data collection took place from July to December 2021, through two questionnaires sent to the research participants in two moments: the initial phase questionnaire and the final phase (after the videos were sent). Results: Six categories were defined arising from the data analysis and had repercussions as guiding axes for the construction of educational videos on oral health in the context of onco-hematology: Care with mucositis; Use of laser as prevention and treatment; Oral hygiene care; Other common oral complications in childhood oncology; Educational proposal – making the video; and Evaluation of the educational proposal – results final phase. It was evident that palliative care promotes humanized care and that multidisciplinary team shows interest in receiving information about the area of dentistry in palliative care, thus promoting humanized care and a better quality of life to the patient. Final considerations: The educational practices related to oral health in the context of palliative care, helped to expand the knowledge of professionals in the sector, in addition to instigating professional autonomy in the definition of effective conducts in the case of cases presented in pediatric onco-hematology.