The study has the objective of describing the dramatization as a methodological approach, in order to explicit the theoretical concept, and the data collection of that strategy in the qualitative researches with hospitalized school age children. The dramatization is bound to play, a form of language in childhood and was a strategy for data collection promising to be used by researchers wishing to know the perceptions and agreement from the children on the subject of the diverse arguments of life and social paper, being an option to work with children in the qualitative research.
Pediatric Nursing; Child; Hospitalized; Qualitative Research; Data Collection