Crenças parentais sobre o câncer no filho: validação de um instrumento para uso no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Christiane Delúsia de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15180
• topic: Cancer; Childhood Cancer; Psychometry; Crenças; Câncer Infantil; Psicometria; Psicologia Social; Câncer em crianças; Fé; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

Cancer is one of the chronic diseases which most happens in childhood. Cancer does not configures as a unic disease, but as a group of over 100 different types, with different etiology and treatments. According to estimates from the National Cancer Institute (INCA), the number of cases has increased each year in Brazil. Following these data, there was also a growth in the cure rate, reaching the level of 70%. Even with the increase of the cases of cure or survival, the disease is for many times referred to the idea of death and suffering. Identifying gaps in brazilian literature about the beliefs related to childhood cancer, this research aimed to: Validate the Inventory of Parental Beliefs About the Cancer in the Son (Study I) and identify associations that people usually do about childhood câncer (Study II). In the Study of Validation (Study I), participated 451 adults (mothers, parents or main caregivers) of children diagnosed with câncer, independent of its time. In the study of word association related with the disease (Study II) participated 331 people divided into two groups, 155 adults with or without children (G1) and 176 parents (mother, father or main caregivers) of children or adolescents with câncer. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and using the chi-square. The results indicated that the words related to cancer are predominantly negative. With the results presented by the two studies, we can say that they brought important results and contributions to enlarge the understanding of the beliefs that permeate the psychological universe of parents who have children with câncer