Metas de socialização e práticas educativas de mães de crianças com câncer: um estudo comparativo com mães de crianças sem diagnóstico de doença

• Autor(a) principal: Sant´anna, Joana Lezan
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15368
• topic: Pediatric Câncer; Socialization Goals; Educative Actions; Câncer Infantil; Metas de Socialização; Práticas Educativas; Câncer em crianças; Socialização; Disciplina infantil; Mãe e filhos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

Parental systems are built by means of the interactions between parents and children along their daily life and on the basis of the prevailing cultural patterns within a socioeconomic profile and life story of the individuals. Important components of the parental systems are the socialization goals and educational practices. The socialization goals refer to how parents want their children to be in the future and what they expect their rearing will help to promote. On the other hand, the educational practices are the process of communicating the correct way in which the child is expected to behave. The literature review evidences that socialization goals and educational practices are affected by the cultural environment of caregivers and by socioeconomics variables, but there are no studies that concerns the possible impacts caused by particularly difficult life situations. This work aims at examining the socialization goals and educational practices of mothers whose children are undergoing cancer treatment, contrasting them with those of mothers of healthy children. In this sense, objective was established on investigating if there were peculiarities in socialization goals and care practices of mothers of children who have cancer due to the specific situation of facing a cancer treatment. It was hypothesized that the life experience of cancer treatment in a health institution, in this case, the National Institute of Cancer (INCA) would impact the care and goals parental system. The study accessed 20 mothers of children age three to five who were undergoing cancer treatment at INCA and 20 mothers of children in the same age group without diagnosed health problems. All signed an Informed Term of Consent. Forms for Identification Data and for Demographic Data and a Questionnaire of Socialization Goals were filled by the mothers. It was also held a semi-structured interview with the mothers, with open questions that sought to investigate educational practices. Data analysis included a quantitative analysis in which, after a descriptive treatment of the data by average, percentages etc. non parametric tests for comparisons between the groups of mother were applied. Besides, a qualitative analysis, with focus on the answers to the Questionnaire of Socialization Goals and the interview on educational care practices, was performed using the method of categorical thematic analysis. It was found that the socialization goals of mothers of children undergoing cancer treatment are different from those of mothers of children with no diagnosis of disease, reflecting more individualistic features. Differences between the two groups were also found in respect to the actions used to achieve the goals, observing less use of the strategy educate and orientate by the groups of mother of children being treated in INCA, reflecting a more pragmatic tendency. For the educational practices, no meaningful differences between the two groups were detected. It is expected that the results obtained can contribute to the development of intervention programs for parents and caregivers, by the best understanding of their goals and actions used in this particular and very difficult situation for the children and their families