Abstract Objective To identify the domains of health literacy of children with diabetes evidenced in a therapeutic play session on self-monitoring of capillary blood glucose. Methods Qualitative study describing instructional therapeutic play sessions conducted at a diabetes camp in Sapucaí Mirim, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Children 8 to 12 years old, with no neurological disease or cognitive impairment, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes were included. The therapeutic play session included: demonstration of the self-monitoring of capillary blood glucose procedure on a […]

Abstract This is a qualitative study whose objective was to understand the meaning attributed by parents to the Therapeutic Play in the nursing assistance to their children. Phenomenology as the Situated Phenomenon was used as the theoretical and methodological frameworks. Data were collected by using recorded interviews with the parents of children assisted at the Pediatric Inpatients and Outpatients Units of a School Hospital and of a philanthropic institution of Sao Paulo City. Results showed that parents consider the Therapeutic […]