| The occupational therapy in the context of assistence for mother/family and interned newborn baby in the unit therapy intensive |
Neonatal care |
Mother and family of newborns admitted to the ICU |
To favor the development of the mother-baby bond in a situation of prematurity.
To guide the family members about the care of the premature baby. |
Multi-professional groups focused on guidance and reflections.
Manual activity groups.
Encouraging parents to carry out baby care at the hospital. |
Greater interaction between mother and baby.
Family safety in taking care of the baby during hospitalization and after hospital discharge.
Contributions to comprehensive and preventive care. |
| Occupational therapy, the production of health care and the place occupied by the hospital: thoughts about the constitution of a field of knowledge and practice |
Hospital Care |
Not specified |
To question the existence of a specific occupational therapy area in hospital practices and its relationship with the production of knowledge and practices related to health care. |
Reflections on the professional core of O.T. in the health care production area, in hospitals.
Reflection on the challenges of O.T. to build an approach to the health-disease process seeking the integrality and humanization of care. |
Notes on strategies necessary for the consolidation of O.T. in the health care production area in hospitals. |
| Reporting on the experience of graduate students (in service training) at the program of occupational therapy in mental health in a pediatric ward |
Child and youth care |
Hospitalized child/adolescents and their caregivers |
To create a space of attention to subjectivity, uniqueness and the difficulties arising with the departure from the daily lives of children and caregivers. |
Group of activities with parents.
Group of activities with children. |
Welcoming the psychological suffering of children and their caregivers, providing an exchange of experiences, facilitating interpersonal relationships within and outside the group.
Valuing human life in the ward. |
| Occupational Therapy and the integral health care of children and adolescents: the construction of the Project ACCALANTO |
Child and youth care |
Children and adolescents, parents and caregivers |
To present the ACCALANTO Project, which develops teaching, research and extension activities in the occupational therapy area and child and adolescent health, from the perspective of the integrality and humanization of care and the integral protection of children and youth |
Listening and welcoming the needs of children from 0 to 2 years old and their parents.
Specialized interventions with a high degree of planning and control; rescuing the daily life and general activities of children/adolescents and their parents/caregivers.
Games, plastic activities, storytelling offered in the playroom and the living areas of the ward.
Groups of activities or individual monitoring with adolescents in general and young mothers offering a space for reinventing themselves and life projects through scenic activities (theater, dance, performance, body expression). |
Not informed. |
| Bath humanized in premature newborns with low weight in a kangaroo infirmary |
Neonatal care |
Low birth weight premature newborns (NB) |
To investigate the adequacy of the humanized bath in premature and low weight newborns admitted to a kangaroo ward, identifying their contributions to the adaptive response to the environment. |
Humanized bath by immersion. |
Favoring the baby's best adaptive response to the environment.
Promotion of organization of behavioral, motor, physiological and interaction systems, contributing beneficially to the healthy development of newborns.
Appointment of the humanized bath as the most suitable for premature newborns. |
| Unfolding the occupational therapist’s role on children oncology in hospital settings |
Pediatric care |
Occupational therapists registered with the Virtual Group of Occupational Therapists in the Hospital Contexts |
To investigate the role of the occupational therapist who works in hospital contexts in pediatric oncology. |
Application of a semi-structured questionnaire aimed at professional characterization and occupational therapeutic intervention. |
The occupational therapist's role spanned different areas related to rehabilitation, promoting child development, humanizing care, coordinating specific sectors within the hospital, and including the approaches used to support their clinical practices. |
| The stories box behind the vision health professionals as a strategy to coping of infant hospitalization |
Pediatric care |
Health professionals working in the oncopediatric ward of a university hospital in the interior of São Paulo. |
To identify the vision of health professionals in an oncopediatric ward for the “Story box extension program” in the care of hospitalized children. |
The fulfillment of a script composed of open questions by health professionals who witnessed the storytelling at least once, aimed at identifying professional perceptions regarding the impacts of the Program. |
Storytelling facilitates medical and nursing procedures and helps the health team in carrying out its activities.
There is no understanding of storytelling as a therapeutic resource, which is associated with a distraction technique.
The action improves the quality of hospitalization, combating the effects of hospitalization. |
| MadAlegria – Hospital clowns: multidisciplinary approach for health humanization |
Adult/Elderly Care |
Adult, elderly, high-risk pregnant women, patients with neurological disorders, infectious diseases, dermatological disease or cancer. |
The project aimed to soften the hospital environment for patients and the work team, and influence the training of students in the health area to obtain differentiated professionals who can exercise their profession in a humanized and interdisciplinary way. |
Training course for clowns at the Hospital.
Training Course for Storytellers.
Weekly visits to the wards. |
MadAlegria allows participants to have an intense experience of multi-professional work even in graduation, getting to know other professions and their interfaces better, while experiencing the multi-professional team in hospital care.
There is a perception that the patient feels more valued, which reflects in his self-esteem and has an impact on the improvement of his rehabilitation process. |
| Day-to-day life, play and relational networks: the handcrafting of care in occupational therapy in hospitals. |
Child and youth care |
Child and adolescent |
To institute a daily life, relational plots, and rhythms that were marked by children's movements and playfulness as language.
To enable an appropriation of the hospital space and its brands through playful action and the production of narratives about themselves and that universe.
To promote a narrative of oneself - child, adolescent- (mother) woman- someone who, during the process of life, experienced a stay in a hospital. |
Storytelling workshops.
Use of recreational activities and light technologies. |
Production of narratives that enabled to weave relationships, appropriation of the sense of “being in the hospital”, identification of coping strategies, respect for singularities; reframing. |
| Assessment of the neurobehavioral signs of preterm infantsadmittedto Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
Neonatal care |
Premature newborns. |
To describe Neuroreport signals
mental approach and withdrawal symptoms presented by premature babies during daily care in a neonatal ICU. |
Direct observation of babies before, during and after the diaper change procedure. |
Overload of adverse stimuli that generate an imbalance in the baby;
the intervention of occupational therapy in the NICU environment is aimed at the application of interventions, adapting the stimuli of the environment while supporting the babies' self-regulation efforts, favoring an adequate development. |
| Caregivers’ perception about the experience of caring for family members and the relationship with the professional team in the context of hospitalization |
Family care |
Caregivers/family members of hospitalized patients in the Medical Clinic ward of HU-USP, attended by OT and other professionals. |
To know and analyze the perception of caregivers about the experience of caring for family members and the relationship with the professional team in the context of hospitalization. |
Written interview and analysis of hospital records and specific OT records. |
Caregivers/family members due to their responsibilities were susceptible to physical and emotional overload, stress and the rupture of their life routines.
They expressed insecurity and difficulties in understanding and appropriating the guidelines, especially those related to the continuity of care after hospital discharge.
Need for transformation the understanding of caregivers within the hospital, so that they can be recognized as partners in the production of patient care. |
| Occupational Therapy and health promotion in the hospital context: care and hospitality |
Adult care |
Two patients (27 and 28 years old) admitted to the medical clinic of a university hospital for more than 10 days. |
To describe the attention
developed by occupational therapy to two hospitalized young adult patients. |
Expressive activities,
crafts, the use of a computer with access to social networks, positioning techniques, mobilization, massage, and energy conservation. |
Expansion of relationships in the context of hospitalization, facilitating the expression of difficulties and feelings; motivation, improvement of aspects, such as body awareness, decreased pain, edema, and fatigue, increased well-being, improved self-care performance. |
