[Trying to regain control: preschool boys' experience in the post-operative stage of circumcision].

This study was carried out with 3 to 6 year-old boys undergoing circumcision, with a view to understanding the meaning of the interactions they experienced them during the post-operative period as well as identifying their strategies while experiencing the surgery. Symbolic Interactionism was used as a theoretical reference framework, and Grounded Theory as a methodological framework. Due to these children's verbal development characteristics, the interview was mediated by therapeutic play.