Patient safety: perception of family members of hospitalized children.

Objectives: to know the meaning attributed by family members to the health safety of pediatric patients, with attention to the possibilities of their collaboration.

Methods: this qualitative study was conducted with eighteen family members of children hospitalized in a pediatric unit, from January to July 2018. Symbolic Interactionism was used as a theoretical framework, and Inductive Content Analysis as method.

School experience of the child and adolescent with visual impairment: family experience.

Objective: to understand the experience of families about school experiences of children and adolescents with visual impairment.

Method: a qualitative study developed through the Symbolic Interactionism and narrative research. Data were collected through a semi-structured recorded interview, with eleven families of children/adolescents with visual impairment, totaling 40 participants.

The social network and support of kidney transplantees.

Objective: to know the social network and support of those who experience the process of kidney disease and transplantation.

Methods: a descriptive qualitative study, based on the concept of social network and social support from Sherbourne and Stewart. Semi-structured interviews were conducted from November 2013 to September 2014, with 12 kidney transplantees, which passed through content analysis.

Support network for families of children and adolescents with visual impairment: strengths and weaknesses.

This study aimed to understand the interactions established between social support networks and families that have children and adolescents with visual impairment, in two different cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was a qualitative, descriptive study with symbolic interactionism as a theoretical framework. A genogram, ecomap and semi-structured interviews with 18 families were used.