title: [The daily life of children living with chronic diseases: microsystems in intersection with individual vulnerability].
abstract: Situations of vulnerability of the environment in which a child and their family are inserted may be translated into life and development conditions. The objective of this study is to know how families perceive the situations of vulnerability and their components, related to the ecological environment, experienced by children who face chronic diseases and are hospitalized in a School Hospital in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is a quantitative research from the perspective of a descriptive exploratory study. Data was collected from nine participants. Dynamic activities of creativity and sensibility were used and analyzed according to the Content Analysis referential. Three categories of analysis emerged; the familiar microsystem is here explored as a construct of the individual component of vulnerability. The search for an intersection demonstrates that an individual component of vulnerability reflects on the microsystem constitution, reinforcing the importance of envisioning the individual as a construct and a constructor of the environment in which their existence takes place.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. malupedroso@gmail.com
authors.forename: Maria de Lourdes Rodrigues
authors.initials: Mde L
authors.lastname: Pedroso
authors.forename: Maria da Graça Corso
authors.initials: Mda G
authors.lastname: da Motta
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life