Connecting to (Re)connect: Video Calling as a Resource to Unite Families and Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Era.

Video calling emerged as an important resource during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reconnect child and family, bringing the possibility of communication even during isolation. The objective of this study was to understand the experiences of families who communicated with their children through video calls during isolation by COVID-19 in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This was a qualitative study employing the theory of symbolic interactionism and the research method of grounded theory, with 14 families of children in PICU who used video calling as a communication resource.

Support group for families with children in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Objective: To describe the process of creating and implementing a support group for families with children in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Methods: A professional experience report described using a management and planning tool.

Results: This is a pioneering initiative in the hospital.

The role of grandparents of children with cancer in the hospital.

Objective: To understand the role of grandparents of hospitalized children with cancer.

Methods: In a qualitative study, we interviewed eleven grandparents of children with cancer hospitalized at a referral center for pediatric oncology in São Paulo. The data were analyzed using the Hybrid Framework of Thematic Analysis.

Mothers mothering in prison: an experience report of the nursing care project.

Objectives: to report the experience of designing and implementing the nursing care project with mothers and babies in prison.

Methods: this is an experience report about the nursing care project with mothers and children in prison, having as a guiding axis Winnicottian concepts about the mother-baby relationship.

Results: nursing consultations were held in childcare, thematic conversation circles and the manufacture of artifacts to encourage child development, as well as women's health care.

Clinical simulation in teaching Pediatric Nursing: students' perception.

Objectives: to comprehend the perception of undergraduate nursing students about learning to care for the child and family through clinical simulation.

Methods: this is a qualitative research conducted with ten nursing students through semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed through content analysis.

Social support of families with tracheostomized children.

Objective: To understand the social support of families with tracheostomized children.

Method: Qualitative study using the Model of Dimensions of Social Support together with the Family System-Illness model as theoretical frameworks, based on the hybrid model of thematic analysis. Nine families with tracheostomized children were interviewed in an outpatient pediatric otorhinolaryngology department of a public hospital in the inner state of São Paulo.

The experience of grandparents of children hospitalized in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To understand the experience of grandparents of children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units.

Method: This was a qualitative study based on the symbolic interactionism theoretical framework and the grounded theory as methodological framework carried out with grandparents of children hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in a city in the state of São Paulo. Data were collected by means of participatory observation and semi-structured interviews, and analyzed following the open and axial codification stages of grounded theory.

Validation of Family Management Measure for the Brazilian culture.

Etjective: To validate the Family Management Measure (FaMM) for Brazilian culture.

Method: Quantitative research excerpt, following the recommendations for validation studies. The data presented refer to the last stage of the process.

The experience of grandmothers of children with cancer.

Objective: to understand, from grandmothers' perspectives, the experience of having a grandchild with cancer.

Method: qualitative study, guided by philosophical hermeneutics. Eight grandmothers of children who had finished an oncology treatment participated in this study.

[The use of the Family Management Style Framework to evaluate the family management of liver transplantation in adolescence].

Objective: To understand the family management experience of liver transplantation during adolescence based on the Family Management Style Framework(FMSF).

Method: This is a case study that used the FMSF as theoretical framework and the hybrid model of thematic analysis as methodological reference. The case presented is from an adolescent's family that lives in Salvador, Bahia.

Cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure among families of children and adolescents with chronic diseases.

Objectives: to perform the cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure into the Brazilian Portuguese language.

Method: the method complied with international recommendations for this type of study and was composed of the following steps: translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; reaching consensus over the translated versions; assessment by an expert committee; back translation; and pretest.

Results: these stages enabled us to obtain conceptual, by-item, semantic, idiomatic, and operational equivalences, in addition to content validation.

Family management style framework and its use with families who have a child undergoing palliative care at home.

Palliative care settings in many countries acknowledge families as their prime focus of care, but in Brazil, to date, researchers have devoted scant attention to that practice setting. In this article, we report the findings of a study that explored how families define and manage their lives when they have a child or adolescent undergoing palliative care at home. Data included individual semistructured interviews with 14 family members of 11 different families.

[The experience of suffering: stories told by hospitalized children].

The objective of this study was to learn about the experience of suffering in hospitalized school-aged children. The methodological strategy used was narrative inquiry, and the Model of Suffering as the theoretical framework. Participants were 14 children.