Cuidadores familiares diante das alterações dos aspectos emocionais de crianças e adolescentes em tratamento da leucemia

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the perception of family caregivers before the emotional changes of children and adolescents under leukemia treatment. The study method had a qualitative approach, descriptive and exploratory type, performed with seven family caregivers of children and adolescents under oncologic treatment. The data collection occurred from the respect to the ethical aspects and took place from semi-structured interviews with guiding questions, from July to December 2020 in the inpatient unit of a public university hospital. Moraes and Galiazzi's textual discourse analysis was used. The results showed early maturation and maintenance of personality traits of infants, construction and strengthening of bonds during hospitalizations, and emotional instabilities and psychic conflicts of family caregivers. It was concluded that the psychological dimension of those involved is affected at different levels, producing psychic suffering and behavioral and relational changes in caregivers and oncology patients.