title: The use of kinetic children's drawings to explore the pain experiences of children in hospital.
abstract: Under the influence of D. Armstrong, R. Burns, S. Kaufman, author proposed his own method of verbal-graphic diagnostics of children's experience with painful interventions in hospital. Child or adolescent characterizes actual and ideal psychosocial environment during painful interventions by kinetic drawing and writing comments. Children's drawings were analyzed by means quantitative and qualitative indicators set. Research sample consisted of 13 children and adolescents (median 12 years) hospitalized at the Pediatric Clinic of University Hospital. Results indicate that for an ill child apparently is not so stressing the painful intervention itself as the circumstances under which it is performed (inadequate preparation of the child, impersonal environment, absence of significant others and social support).
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Medicine Charles University, Faculty of Medicine.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mares
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D011386:Projective Techniques; D002666:Psychology, Child