The stories box behind the vision health professionals as a strategy to coping of infant hospitalization

Abstract

The “Program of Stories Box Extension” has been developed in pediatric wards,using as resources puppets and others elements. The aim of this study was to analyze the opinionof health’s professionals about this program. Five health’s professionals of oncology pediatric wardhave been participated, which answered a questionnaire about the impact of “Stories Box” in childrenhospitalized. Was used the Discourse of the Collective Subject for analysis. The answers permittedthe follow collective discourse: “The stories, and any kind of plays activities, help in recoveringof child, allowing that she/he forgets her/him suffering. This way, this children stay more feel atease, decreasing the discomfort caused for hospital ambience. We believe that stories improve thequality of hospitalization, because we realize how children became more animated and how theyentertain themselves in the world of creativity and imagination. How they are livelier, the joy ofthem is transmitted to us. The stories told helped us in our activities, amusing us and, this way,smiling with children. So, time passes without them realizing”.