Children stress of an academical hospital and the doctor-clowns

• Grant number: 12/14480-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2012
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Physiology - Physiology of Organs and Systems
• Principal Investigator: Juliana Irani Fratucci de Gobbi
• Grantee: Flávia Genta Saliba
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IBB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

There are several forms of promoting well-being and humanization inside of a hospital atmosphere, among these the "doctors' of the happiness" presence or "doctor-clowns" (DC). However, in spite of the practice to be accepted thoroughly and eulogized by those assisted, there is a lack of validations and more careful investigations on the mechanisms involved. The project Medical of the Happiness from the Medical School of Botucatu, UNESP, acts since 2000 trying to minimize the patients' stress of those interned in the chemotherapy clinic and Pediatric Infirmary of the Clinics Hospital of Botucatu by the performance of DC. One of the forms to evaluate the effects of these DC is the dosage of salivate cortisol. The cortisol is known as the hormone of the stress, where its secretion is increased in response to some environmental challenge. The saliva samples are simple to obtain in comparison with blood samples. Therefore, the present project has as aim compares effects of the intervention or not of the DC for a better characterization of those performances in this institution. For this purpose, they children of 6 and 7 years of age interned in the Infirmary of Pediatrics of the Clinics Hospital will be interviewed, on: the) the satisfaction degree, b) stress symptoms, and c) cortisol salivate levels. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SALIBA, FLAVIA G.; ADIWARDANA, NATANAEL S.; UEHARA, ELIANE U.; SILVESTRE, RENATA N.; LEITE, VICTOR V.; FALEIROS, FRANCISCA T. V.; PADOVANI, FLAVIA H. P.; DE GOBBI, JULIANA I. F.. Salivary cortisol levels: the importance of clown doctors to reduce stress. PEDIATRIC REPORTS, v. 8, n. 1, p. 12-14, 2016. (12/14480-1)