Hepatic transplant in children : The social side-effects encountered by social service personnel in the process of evaluating families of children who require liver transplant

• Autor(a) principal: G. Grossini , Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Hoffmeister, Marleci
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/125018
• topic: Childhood hepatic transplant; social counterindication; Transplante hepático infantil; contra-indicações sociais

OBJECTIVE: To identify the nature of the main social side-effects of 89 families ofchildren who require liver transplant, and who were evaluated by the social servicewith the program for hepatic transplant in children at Hospital de Clínicas de PortoAlegre. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A quantitative research project was designed usingexisting data from the registration form of social service, which contains informationregarding children who are candidates to transplant. RESULTS: From a total of 89 families that were evaluated, there was an indication ofimmediate social side-effects in 55 families, or 61.8% of the total; there was also anindication of deficit in the category family relationships in 69.1% of these 55 families;and 25.4% of these 55 families indicated a deficit in the category family cultural aspects.Only one family did not indicate deficit in the category social and economic organization. CONCLUSION: The results indicate the importance of the work of social servicepersonnel for the program of hepatic transplant in children at Hospital de Clínicas dePorto Alegre. Of the 55 families that were evaluated the social service, and thatpresented immediate social side-effects, 34 families, or 61%, were socially preparedto have their child submitted to transplant as a result of the work performed by socialservice.