Tecnologia digital: proposição de auxílio para o cuidador familiar no tratamento oncológico de crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

The family caregiver will search for support strategies to face the behavioral changes experienced by children or adolescents under treatment for leukemia. The objective of the present study is to identify how the digital technologies help the family caregivers, from the doubts arising from the behavioral changes presented by children or adolescents under treatment for leukemia. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. The inclusion criteria were family caregivers aged 18 years old or older, of children or adolescents from zero to 19 years old, under leukemia treatment, admitted to the CTCriac. The data collection was done by searching the electronic medical records of the children or adolescents in treatment and weekly semistructured interviews, from July to December 2020. All the caregivers regarding Covid-19 were respected. The sample was composed of seven family caregivers, identified as (CF1H) successively, being six mothers and one father with a mean age of 33 years. As categories of the results emerged: doubts of the family caregivers after the confirmation of the leukemia diagnosis and use of digital technologies as a strategy of care support by the family caregivers. From these it is recommended the creation of a website, using as content manager the WordPress software. Its management will be done by the second year multiprofessional residents and it will be available in the web site of the Santa Maria University Hospital.