Reading mediation as a communication resource for hospitalized children: support for the humanization of nursing care.
The Live Library in Hospitals Project is a strategy adopted by several health institutions for the purpose of providing hospitalized children and adolescents the reading mediation of infant-juvenile stories through professionals and volunteers capable of this function. This study aimed to find out to what extent the reading of stories strategy proposed by this project in hospitals can be a communication resource to use with hospitalized children. In order to do that, empirical data collection was carried out through the use of semi structured interviews with the reader and children above the age of seven years and observation of reading sections. The qualitative data analysis was doing it and it was verified that the reading mediation favors the dialogs and relationships; contribute for the expansion of the diagnostic and therapeutic and development processes of children, relatives and health professionals.
Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, SP. caceribelli@yahoo.com.br
Carina
C
Ceribelli
Lucila Castanheira
LC
Nascimento
Soraya Maria Romano
SM
Pacífico
Regina Aparecida Garcia
RA
de Lima
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011932:Reading