Cruz MO, Cruz LC, Mejías LM, Machado MY

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ABSTRACT

Background: Hospitalized children suffer an abrupt change. Home, school, neighborhood, siblings, friends and usual activities disappear besides boredom due to poor stimulation and monotony of the routines and all of these make recovery very poor. Objective: To assess the design of a strategy with an intersectorial approach to enhance emotional well-being in hospitalized children. Methodology: Delphy method, SWOT matrix, specialists criteria and interviews. Five providers intervened in the design and 15 specialists were taken as samples for evaluation by using the Snow Ball method. Results: The designed strategy was described, consisting of five dimensions, nine programs, 27 subprograms and more than eighty actions and a positive criterion of experts is taken. Conclusions: A strategy was designed to improve the emotional well-being in hospitalized school children with a health approach. The strategy is relevant and appropriate, feasible to be applied and can be very effective to improve the emotional well-being in hospitalized school children.

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